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The women of Pakistan are regular voters as are the men, and women also
are regular attendees at colleges. Islam gives women rights to child
custody, to alimony, and to inheritance, and they also have the right to
conduct business and enter any profession. Women are engaged in
agriculture production and the services sector. Women judges have been
appointed to four high courts as well as several lower courts and a 10
percent quota was established for women to become police officers.
There are growing numbers of violent crimes against or involving women and
the government has introduced the concept of women police stations, which
have been opened in Rawalpindi, Karachi, and Abbottabad in the North West
Frontier.
A number of computer training centers have been established for women and
the government has opened "women development centers" that
specialize in training community development workers in family planning,
hygiene, sanitation, adult literacy, community organization, and legal
rights.
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