Daily Times: PESHAWAR: In an unprecedented move Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed “Enforcement of Women Ownership Rights Bill”, which seeks to ensure provision of rights for women in the inherited property, on Thursday.

Pakistan People’s Party-Parliamentarian MPA from Swat Noor Sehar had tabled the bill last week, and the House with Deputy Speaker Khush Dil Khan in chair passed it unanimously bringing smile and cheers from the female MPAs who hailed the passage as a victory for women.

“Women being the weaker segment of society were deprived of their legal rights of ownership and possession in the property, this practice needs to be curbed,” the statement of objects and reasons of the bill read. The bill entitles provision of inherited rights to women in both moveable and immoveable property, devolved upon and vested in woman by way of inheritance, gift, purchase or acquired by her by way of any other legal and Shariah means.

MPA Noor Sehar sought bar on depriving women of her ownership. “No person shall abridge, violate, curtail or obstruct the right of ownership or possession of women in inherited property,” the bill read.

Editor’s note: And now get ready for more women being murdered to resolve property disputes. Merely passing a law without changing attitudes is a disaster in making.

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