The Supreme Court of Pakistan has dismissed an appeal filed by a former husband, holding that the repeated use of criminal and civil proceedings to challenge a woman’s remarriage after the dissolution of marriage through khula amounted to harassment and an abuse of the legal process. The court ruled that a marriage stands legally dissolved […]
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Supreme Court upholds women’s right to Khula
In a landmark verdict reinforcing women’s autonomy within Islamic family law, the Supreme Court has held that a woman’s right to seek Khula – dissolution of marriage on grounds of incompatibility – is an “independent and inalienable right” that cannot be made conditional upon her husband’s consent or judicial discretion beyond the scope prescribed in […]