Petition for Full Marriage Equality in Pakistan

Petition for Full Marriage Equality in Pakistan

Started
9 December 2020
Petition to
Khalid Jawed Khan Attorney-General for Pakistan
Signatures: 4Next goal: 5
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Why this petition matters

Started by Richard Chu

Dear  Attorney General,

The Islamic Republic of  Pakistan's legal system, which incorporates old British law and traditional Islamic law)  permits consanguineous relationships and some consanguineous marriages.  About 70% of marriages in Pakistan are between consanguineous couples, usually  cousins.  (1st and 2nd cousin marriage is permitted under Islamic law and British law, while marriage among close blood relations like parents, stepparents, parents in-law, siblings, step-siblings, the children of siblings, aunts and uncles is forbidden).  However Pakistan's laws discriminate  against 'consanguinamorous' people (Consenting adults in incest-oriented-CIAO relationships  (those who are not cousins)  by prohibiting them from  marrying, even if they have children. This is unfair and  harmful to both the parents and  their children.
"At this time, Pakistan has no set of laws dealing with incest. What it does have is a law against rape and zina (adultery)."
https://tribune.com.pk/article/29948/pakistan-has-laws-against-rape-and-adultery-but-what-about-incest
The Right to equality is an important and meaningful right provided in Articles 25 the Pakistan constitution.
Article 25 Equality of citizens.
(1) All citizens are equal before law and are entitled to equal protection of law.
(2) There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex  35[]
http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/
Article 14 Inviolability of dignity of man, etc.
(1) The dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable.
  But where is the equality before the law for all citizens in Pakistan  if CIAO ( Consensual Adult Incest Oriented )  people (who are not 1st or 2nd cousins)  cannot marry and other sexual minorities can? CIAO people may have children and they too  need to  be equally  protected by the law and have the same legal rights as everyone else to marriage and a family,  which are  rights guaranteed by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "Egypt, Iran and Pakistan signed the UDHR in 1948."
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2012/12/10/1569/
CIAO people and their children should  not be subject to legal discrimination social stigma or institutional  incestophobia and nor should they  be deprived of rights that others have who are in consensual adult relationships : the  right to  marry, and  the right to have  a mother and a father who are legally married to each other.
Not all CIAO people may want to marry, but those who wish to marry  should be permitted to do so. To refuse to allow them to marry is a breach of their civil rights as citizens, and their human rights as human beings and to treat them as different from other people is to  discriminate  against them.
 Sir, as the Attorney General , will you please help to  reform of Pakistan's marriage laws so that in future, all CIAO people who wish to marry will be legally permitted  to do so and are  no longer subjected to unfair discrimination by the state. Your help in this matter will be greatly.
Thank you very much on behalf of CIAO people everywhere today and in the future.

Yours sincerely,
Richard Morris

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  • Khalid Jawed Khan Attorney-General for Pakistan