September 22, 2016 1:40 PM

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Pakistani women protest outside UNHRC against gender-related violence

Pakistani Women's Human Rights Organisation held a silent protest outside the UNHRC in Geneva yesterday, against gender related violence and honour killing in Pakistan. The women displayed banners showing "Pakistan Free Your Daughters", "There is no Honour in Killing" and "Stop Abusing Women".<br/><br/>Speaking to the media, one of the protesters said, protest is to remind the world that Pakistani women, in their daily lives, were still faced with domestic violence and honour killing. She said, the growing influence of Islamic clerics in Pakistan's policy making as one of the main reasons for its society becoming so regressive.<br/><br/>Speaking to media at the venue of the protest, Tarek Fateh, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress said, Pakistan is an outcast State and practiced the worst form of Islamic fascism. He said, the present condition of women in Pakistan and the support by the Pakistani State to terrorism, is a result of the state policy.

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