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Key proposals in the bill
• Three consecutive declarations of divorce will be punishable (punishment unspecified)
• Contracting a woman’s marriage to a Quran will be a crime carrying a ten-year sentence
• Ban on honour killing, karo kari, and siyah kari
• Ban on co-education past the primary level
• Female nurses should not attend to male patients
• Mothers must breastfeed for two years
• Ban on advertisements of baby formula/substitutes for breast milk
• A woman cannot use contraception without the husband’s permission
• An abortion after 120 days will be classified as murder.
Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2016
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