Pakistan

Property battles: Widow turned out of home by son and in-laws

Woman has appealed to the authorities to restore her property after she was turned out by her relatives.

Express May 09, 2011

LIAQATPUR:

A woman has appealed to the authorities to restore her property after she was turned out by her relatives on Sunday.

According to police officials, Romana Aleem, the widow of Abdul Aleem, who died seven years ago was tortured and turned out of her house by her in-laws and her son.

Romana said that after her husband’s death his nephews Abdul Hameed, Abdul Majeed and Abdul Waheed and her son Kashif had seized her property and turned her out.

“I wasn’t left with much after my husband’s property was distributed. I only had a tiny one bedroom house but they took that after beating me with sticks for hours,” she said.

Romana said that her in-laws had also convinced her son to side with them in the matter.

“My three younger children live with me but we have no where to go,” she said. Romana said that her in-laws refused to transfer property in her children’s name as her elder son had wanted the major share.

RY Khan District Police Officer (DPO) said that he had filed her complaint and that police were investigating.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (9)

Salman | 13 years ago | Reply People you got it wrong..Islam is not our religion it is The Religion of Humanity.. Furqan is rightly said you should have study the laws of Islam and our so called Constitution.. People are always blaming the Religion for that especially "Islam" why have u all follow the Islam in proper way.. Pakistan was create in the name of Religion but we haven't got Islamic Laws implemented in our social life. So you can't blame religion in this.. Do you know what is our constitution is all about it is about how to protect a powerful or elite but not poor. Its just like "Jis ki laathi us ki bhains".

Gappoo | 13 years ago | Reply @Shanil Khan Hi Shanil, I don't think Furqan is passing judgement on what he thinks the role of a woman in society should be. I think he was just trying to explain the logic behind the inheritance ruling in the Quran, which I believe he has got right. I believe the share of inheritance for the male child is double that of a female child because, if the female chooses (emphasis on "chooses") to sit at home and take care of the family, she has the right to be completely supported financially by her husband. If she isn't married, then her father or brother is responsible for supporting her financially. I am NOT saying at all that a woman needs a man to survive and I would actually encourage women to play an active role in society by contributing financially and socially. However, if she voluntarily chooses to stay at home, Islam provides her the complete right to do so and claim on her husband/brother/father's financial support to maintain her. Hence, the larger claim to inheritance for the male child as compared to the female child. This is the ruling - the way it is interpreted/applied and the social problems are man-made and should not be blamed on Islam. Just my two cents :-)

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Furqan | 13 years ago | Reply @shanil khan: I guess there's point of arguing with you. And if you read my comment carefully i did not say anything against the women,God has made Men to look after there Woman to support them, and you should see that this is majority not only in Pakistan but also around the world.

shanil khan | 13 years ago | Reply @Furqan: it's people like you who can't even think of women as breadwinners & being financially independent that make life difficult for working women all over pakistan.Providing lame justifications & excuses for inequal inheritance only goes to show your hypocrisy. A woman doesn't NEED a man for her to survive,many brave,intelligent,self-confident women are surviving even in a society like ours by having careers of their own. Hats off to all working women in Pakistan,you persevere even when you have religious fundoos making your life miserable every step of the way.

ahs | 13 years ago | Reply where should this women go while all of you are debating the issue ?

Furqan | 13 years ago | Reply @muhammad adnan: I think you need you need to study the Islamic law carefully before speaking first, first of all the direct family gets the inheritance, not the brothers. But the Children and wife do.So they haven't even followed the Islamic law and you start blaming it. And regarding the Male getting more than the female there is a logic behind it also e.g the son will get more than the sister because obviously he will have the responsibility to look after them and once the females are married there husbands will be the support for them and as for the male he will be the support to his wife.

danish akthar | 13 years ago | Reply @muhammad adnan: the laws will be discriminatory as instead of being built up on principles of logic & rationality our laws are based on religious dogma which leads to laws such as the infamous blasphemy laws,huddod laws,law of evidence etc. Jinnah had made the 'republic of pakistan", the maulvis then blackmailed the weak govt. into changing it to the "Islamic republic of pakistan" & ever since then the descent of our society into the horrors of islamic fundamentalism has continued.

umair imran | 13 years ago | Reply @muhammad adnan: blaming non-muslim for all our problems is our nation's favourite pastime.we delude ourselves into thinking that just because we were born muslims we are somehow better than the non-muslims.But i guess when your constitution makes it a law that no non-muslim can ever become the president or prime minister of pakistan than such attitudes will prevail. when our constitution gives out the signal that non-muslims are not worthy enough of becoming president or prime minister than the muslim population will believe in their delusion of superiority only by dint of following a particular religion.

muhammad adnan | 13 years ago | Reply our religion doesn't allow equal inheritance for men & women. women by law are supposed to get much less inheritance than men as in the case of when the father dies ,the daughter gets much less than her brother who only by reason of being a man is allowed by religion to usurp his father's assets. this discrimination has to be ended,our laws have to be made secular so religion isn't allowed to interfere in legal matters.We are seeing the destructive effects of allowing religion to interfere in the matters of the state yet our media seems intent on not talking about the 800 pound gorilla in the room,it's much easier to blame all our ills on the yahodis,qadianis & RAW agents.

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