{"id":6782,"date":"2026-01-24T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/?p=6782"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:01:19","slug":"staring-at-wife-threatening-divorce-or-remarriage-declared-a-crime-parliament-passes-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/?p=6782","title":{"rendered":"Staring at wife, threatening divorce or remarriage declared a crime, Parliament passes law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A joint session of Parliament has passed a law related to the social security of wife and children. The Domestic Violence Act 2026 has been passed in a joint session of Parliament, which will be applicable to the federal capital Islamabad. Under the law, staring at a wife, threatening divorce or remarriage and keeping a wife with other people in the house without her consent have also been declared a punishable crime. The law also makes it a crime to abuse, emotionally or psychologically harass the wife, children or other people living in the house. In the Domestic Violence Act 2026, if found guilty, a sentence of up to 3 years and a fine of up to one lakh rupees can be imposed, while failure to pay the fine will result in an additional 6 months in prison. Furthermore, the Domestic Violence Act includes economic exploitation along with sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint session&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6783,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeetnews.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}