Kidnapping:

Where there is state help in empowered the women, The ratio of crimes also increasing in the
women. Kidnaping is also one of the major serious crime which is increasing gradually
among the women. The major cause of this crime is Hate and jealousy. According to the
News media there is various news in which the women kidnapped the child or men for the
sake of money or the personal revenge.

In 2020, The Lahore police arrested a Women gang involved in kidnapping of children
busted. According to the theNews.com Investigation Wing of Lahore police busted a
women’s gang involved in the kidnapping of children and recovered a 10-year-old boy from
their custody. The accused woman forced him to beg for two days. Police using technology
arrested the accused women and recovered the child.

There is another news which is mentioned on duniyanews.com, A woman involved in

kidnapping of a 3-year-old girl was caught by the mob and thrashed bitterly in Gulshan-e-
Iqbal and was later arrested by police. According to details, people caught the kidnapper red-
handed while she was later handed over to the police after thorough beating by the mob. The
residents of the area told that the arrested woman was trying to kidnap three-year-old Alizah.
The grandfather of the girl has filed the case against the kidnapper.

According to the statistics of the theglobaleconomy.com the “Kidnapping by women” is

between 20215-2018 was 0.8% but it is increased in 2021 to 1.7% .

The kidnapping ratio is not only limited to the big cities of the Pakistan, its spread its circle
all over the Pakistan. In Mardan The police arrested two neighbourer women involved in
kidnapping/murder of four-year girl. The cause of kidnapping was just a revenge.

The Kidnapping of the infant child by women is one of the most serious crime in Pakistan.

Infant kidnapping:

Pakistan is a new entrant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International
Child Abduction 1980 it has not yet had the chance to develop any jurisprudence on it.
However, some pre-Convention decisions are still very helpful in that regard and establish
guiding principles. In the case of Misbah Rana/Molly Campbell, Writ Petition No.9730 of
2006, decided on 29 November 2006 by the Lahore High Court, Mian Saqib Nisar J (as he
then was, later the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan) gave two judgments. The
first of these was Ms Louise Anne Fairly v Sajjad Ahmed Rana PLD 2007 Lahore 293. The
second was Ms Louise Anne Fairly v Sajjad Ahmed Rana PLD 2007 Lahore 300. The
principle of “judicial comity” was key and Pakistan was not a pariah state. Mian Saqib Nisar
J noted that Sajjad Ahmed Rana’s solicitors refused to act for him and the Scottish Court was
equally unimpressed with him. Mian Saqib Nisar J recorded that he examined and
interviewed Misbah Rana/Molly Campbell in his chamber. Despite the fact that she wanted
to live in Pakistan, in his view “the reasons given by her that she is being prevented by the
petitioner [mother] to lead her life in lines and according to the Islamic virtues seems to be
tutored.

In Rawalpindi; according to the Dawn.pk, A man and women abducted the infant child from
hospital which is recovered after a week. Police arrested a couple for kidnapping a three-day-
old baby from outside a government hospital in the RA Bazaar area over a week ago and
recovered the infant. In Lahore; A newborn baby has been abducted by a woman on night
from a Lahore hospital.

Polyandry (Double Marriage)

In which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. Polyandry is contrasted
with polygyny, involving one male and two or more females. If a marriage involves a plural
number of "husbands and wives" participants of each gender, then it can be called polygamy,
group or conjoint marriage. In its broadest use, polyandry refers to sexual relations with
multiple males within or without marriage. Of the 1,231 societies listed in the 1980
Ethnographic Atlas, 186 were found to be monogamous; 453 had occasional polygyny; 588
had more frequent polygyny; and 4 had polyandry. Polyandry is less rare than this figure
suggests, as it considered only those examples found in the Himalayan mountains (28
societies). More recent studies have found more than 50 other societies practicing polyandry.
Fraternal polyandry is practiced among Tibetans in Nepal and parts of China, in which two
or more brothers are married to the same wife, with the wife having equal "sexual access" to
them. It is associated with partible paternity, the cultural belief that a child can have more
than one father. Several ethnic groups practicing polyandry in India identify their customs
with their descent from Draupadi, a central character of the Mahabharta who was married to
five brothers, although local practices may not be fraternal themselves.

Polyandry is believed to be more likely in societies with scarce environmental resources. It is

believed to limit human population growth and enhance child survival. It is a rare form of
marriage that exists not only among peasant families but also among the elite families.[8] For
example, polyandry in the Himalayan mountains is related to the scarcity of land. The
marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and
undivided. If every brother married separately and had children, family land would be split
into unsustainable small plots. In contrast, very poor persons not owning land were less
likely to practice polyandry in Buddhist Ladakh and Zanskar. In Europe, the splitting up of
land was prevented through the social practice of impartible inheritance. With most siblings
disinherited, many of them became celibate monks and priests.

Although Islamic marital law allows men to have up to four wives, polyandry is not allowed
in Islam. Polyandrous marriages were practiced in pre-Islamic Arabian cultures, but were
outlawed during the rise of Islam. Nikah Ijtimah was a pagan tradition of polyandry in older
Arab regions which was condemned and abolished during the rise of Islam.

According to the report of the Dawnews.com One of the commonly held beliefs among
Muslims is that of a God-given right to polygamy for men. Polygamy is legal in many Asian
and African countries. Turkey and Tunisia banned the practice many years ago. In Malaysia,
approval from a Sharia court is required. The practice is less common in the subcontinent,
perhaps because of economic reasons.

In Pakistan, family law requires written permission from the man’s first wife to marry again.
However, many men overlook this and most wives are unaware of this law.
Like many other beliefs, this too is one that has been frozen in time by male scholars,
especially of some sects, without consideration of alternative interpretations of Quranic
verses or of Hadith and later practices.

There are two very significant instructions here. The first is that men were allowed to marry
more than once, up to a limit of four, in order to take care of the orphans who had been left
behind when their fathers were killed: men are asked to marry the mothers of these orphans.
The other instruction places a condition of exercising justice and equity among the wives,
followed by a statement suggesting that it is likely this will not be possible.

Pakistan legal system dealt with the women prisoners with a polite manner despite Men.

Women prisons in Pakistan

Central Jail, Gaddani and District Jail Quetta, while all sentenced women and juveniles are
held in separate barracks in Peshawar and Haripur prisons in Khyber Pukhtoon Khua
province. Under-trial women and juveniles are detained in separate barracks in central and
district prisons. Women make up a very small proportion of the prison population in Pakistan
and their numbers have notably declined during the first six months of 2009, from 1518 on
31 December 2008 to the current figure of 1252. This reduction has been achieved, no doubt
as a result of the impact of the more active prison visits undertaken by judges, as well as due
to changes made to legislation which has favorably affected women's imprisonment. Women
prisoners face even greater challenges in accessing the specialist healthcare that they require.
Prison authorities report that women receive visits from the district health departments, but
that there is a shortage of woman doctors. In some prisons, for example, Karachi and
Rawalpindi, NGOs were providing additional healthcare support to women prisoners. There
had been 12 HIV positive cases among women prisoners, of which 11 had been released.
Women prisoners are transferred to hospitals for child birth in larger cities. In smaller cities a
mid-wife visits prisons and assists with child birth. In smaller towns women prisoners are
said to sometimes give birth without any supervision or assistance by medical specialist or
mid-wife. Most of the specialist women's healthcare was being provided by organizations of
civil society, rather than the Ministry of Health or Prison Department. It is important to note
that in the majority of prisons worldwide mental health among all prisoners is a growing
concern. The high rate of mental illness among prisoners is related to many interrelated
factors. All prisoners are at risk of developing a range of mental healthcare needs in prisons,
irrespective of whether they had particular mental healthcare needs on entry. Currently there
are no clinical psychologists available in Pakistan's prisons to respond to the needs of all
prisoners and the healthcare assessment on entry does not include a thorough assessment of
mental healthcare needs. In some prisons there are temporary or part-time personnel (usually
recent graduates) appointed, who do not have the requisite experience.