In a landmark move, the Federal Government of Pakistan has finally outlawed the practice of demanding a dowry in Pakistan. The groom’s family can no longer demand dowry from the bride’s family.<\/p>\n
The South Asian tradition of demanding dowry from a bride’s family places a lot of social and financial pressure on families with daughters. The groom’s family then places the dowry on display. A bride’s value is often associated with the material value of her dowry.<\/p>\n
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Fahad Mustafa and Mehwish Hayat Laud Resolution Against Dowry in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n The practice has even been deemed a reason behind female infanticide<\/a> in the world’s largest populations, China and India. Families prefer not to raise girls as that means a loss of significant wealth as dowry.<\/p>\n The impact of dowry in Pakistan is similar. Some parents commit suicide due to their inability to wed off their daughters. Similarly, women also follow the same path out of guilt to relive their family of the burden of paying a dowry.<\/p>\n In Pakistan, details of ‘gifts<\/em>‘ and dowry given to a bride are even documented in the Nikkah-Nama (marriage certificate). This can determine if the bride losses her dowry if she is divorced. Additionally, this certificate also details whether the in-laws will pay for remittances and damages to the dowry if the brides takes her dowry with her in case of divorce.<\/p>\n Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs has decided to ban the tradition of dowry. However, the new law does not entail a complete prohibition of dowry in the country. The Nation<\/a> reported that according to the new law, the allowed dowry will be just clothes, but only for the bride only. Gifts also include bed-sheets.<\/p>\n In the case of divorce, the groom\u2019s side has to return all the gifts and dowry to the girl.<\/p>\n Prior to Pakistan, both India and Bangladesh have already outlawed the practice of demanding and accepting dowry. However traditional factions of society still indulge in the practice in secrecy.<\/p>\n Will outlawing dowry in Pakistan have a similar fate? What do you think?<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Indian Groom Runs Away with Rs 8 Lakh in Dowry<\/a><\/p>\n In a landmark move, the Federal Government of Pakistan has finally outlawed the practice of demanding a dowry in Pakistan. The groom’s family can no longer demand dowry from the bride’s family. The South Asian tradition of demanding dowry from a bride’s family places a lot of social and financial pressure on families with daughters. The groom’s family then places […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":283877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,1298],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-culture"},"wps_subtitle":"Do you think this is the right step?","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dowry-in-Pakistan-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dowry-in-Pakistan-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dowry-in-Pakistan.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Crime","Culture"],"title_text":"Pakistan Officially Bans Dowry","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,1298&exclude=283864","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283864"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=283864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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