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The Pakistan Womens Rights Committee: The next exercise with a wider scope was the setting up of the Pakistan Womens Rights Committee in 1975. Chaired by Mr. Yahya Bakhtiar, then Attorney-General of Pakistan, the Committee was asked for legal and other recommendations to improve the social status and economic conditions of women and to make legal remedies for women is such matters as obtaining maintenance, custody of children, etc, easier and speedier.Pakistan Commission on the Status of Women: In 1983 a Pakistan Commission on the Status of Women was set up for a specified period. The Commission was asked to ascertain both the rights and responsibilities of women in Islamic society, to suggest how those rights could be safeguarded and how women themselves could help in eradicating ignorance, social evils, poverty and disease, and to identify measures that could be taken to provide education, health and employment opportunities to women.

 

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