Abstract
This paper analyzes the role of the Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961 as the pioneer, towards the journey of
empowering Pakistani women. The ordinance was the outcome of around six years of struggle done by APWA and
other women’s rights organizations in Pakistan to provide Pakistani women with their rights; to maintenance and
divorce along security from being marginalized through polygamist social traditions. But unfortunately, the
ordinance could not bore much fruit in the patriarchal Pakistani society where women are oblivious of their
fundamental rights and could not gain from the powers given to them through the ordinance. The ordinance
remained impractical for the majority of the female population, and just a few modern and educated urban women
benefited from the law. For this descriptive analysis, the qualitative methodology has been used.
Ahmad Hassan, Muhammad Ahmad Qadri, Muhammad Saleem. (2021) The Muslim Family Law Ordinance 1961: Pioneer of Women Empowerment in Pakistan, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume-58, Issue-1.
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