Pak ordinance on women

NEW DELHI, APRIL 20. The Military Government of Gen Pervez Musharraf has removed a long-standing discrimination against Pakistani women whose children are denied the citizenship if they marry foreign men.

The Pakistan President, Mr. Rafiq Tarar, issued an ordinance yesterday amending the Pakistani Citizen Act to provide that children born of Pakistani mothers and foreign fathers will automatically be given Pakistani citizenship.

In another order, the President stayed the execution of death sentence against a women who killed her lover's wife and children in Punjab about five years ago.

The stay is given for three weeks during which Fatima Bibi will try to buy pardon from the vicitm's relatives.

If she fails, she will be the first Pakistani woman to be hanged, according to the BBC.

- UNI

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