Does domestic violence affect the freedom of women life in Pakistan

Abstract

Domestic violance is an emerging issue in Pakistan, the objective of this work was to analyse the current situation in Pakistan and to find out the impact of such domestic violance on other family members.It was discriptive study and the data was gathered from existing research reports, research papers reports prepared by government and non government organizations.It was found that man has dominant role in our society and has a great power to control the domestic affair and women are considered as a weak gender. So there are number of cases reported regarding domestic violance on daily bases. In Pakistan domestic violance includes beating, killing, abduct, assault, actual attack and acid throwing. In Pakistan there is one significant reason behind this brutality is the poverty in our culture and this culture is mostly controlled by men. So it was concluded that domestic violance is still prevailing in Pakistan and it has a great negative social and pshycological impact on other members of society.It was recommended that the government should implement its law and policies regarding domestic violance against those who are involve in such types of act.