Domestic violence July 25, 2021 The past few days have brought into glaring spotlight Pakistan’s massive violence against women epidemic. This has also brought back into the national conversation the proposed law on domestic violence The proposed law, which covers only the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and has a limited scope in itself – since after the 18th Amendment such matters fall under the provincial domains – is currently with the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) after the adviser to the PM on parliamentary affairs, Babar Awan, wrote a letter to the National Assembly speaker seeking review of the bill. Meanwhile, the existing provincial laws on domestic violence have their own shortcomings, some of which have made the laws nearly toothless.