KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Incidents of violence against women significantly decreased in southeastern Khost province from 55 last year to so far 17 incidents this year, an official said.
Khost women’s affairs director Malala Wali told an academic research seminar on violence against women here that the incidents happened this year included denial of inheritance right, divorce, underage marriages, forced marriage and beating.
She said her department had been able to address seven of the cases in consultation with legal experts.
She linked the decrease . . .
