This is worst kind of marital rape. Analysing the situation on ground, the recommendations say The Zina Ordinance discourages rape victims from filing charges by presenting the threat of potential prosecution for adultery. These laws are also seriously flawed because they fail to criminalise marital rape and to establish the crime of statutory rape or sex with or without the consent of a minor. The Human Rights Watch recommends that the former provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code on rape should be re-enacted into law with amendments to make marital rape a criminal offence and to incorporate the broader definition of rape given above. According to the Human Rights Watch report, it is estimated that eight women are raped every 24 hours in Pakistan and 70 to 95 percent of women have experienced domestic violence.
Few women report the crimes and fewer still see their attackers brought to justice.
Such sort of marital rape is common in our society, but it is not reported or complained about due to legal lacuna and social and legal protection to wives. Moreover she lost her honour. The Speedy Trial Court awarded 30 years rigorous imprisonment to Qari Sharif. Her life became miserable as she lives on artificial system that too after her reconstructive surgery in London. She was sent to UK on the directives of the then prime minister Benazir Bhutto.