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" VIOLATION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS VIOLATION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS   [Paper read at a conference under the auspices of the Pakistan Women Lawyers' Association on 14th October, 1993.]   By   Mr. Justice Haziqul Khairi, Judge High Court of Sindh   It is a great honour and privilege for me to be invited by the All Pakistan Women Lawyers' Association to address such an august gathering on a subject of utmost importance to all of us. I congratulate Mrs. Rashida Patel, the President of the Association and other Organizers for holding a conference on violations of human rights with special reference to women.   I do not profess to be a champion of human rights. However, by reason of my duties and inclination, the subject has assumed a great deal of significance for me. There is so much of hue and cry today of human rights violation all over the nook and corner of the world, but man is not at peace with himself or with others and with the passage of time the world is not certainly a better place for him to live in. It will not be possible for me to encompass all these violations within a short span of time available to me, I will therefore, confine myself to what I see around me in my own dear country.   It is a matter of recorded history that Pakistan from its very inception recognised the universal principle of equality to all citizens irrespective of their religion, race, sex, birth, wealth, position or power etc. The Father of the Nation in his speech at the public reception at Chittagong on 26th March, 1948 declared:" Brotherhood, equality and fraternity of man‑‑‑these are all the basic points of our religion, culture and civilization. And we fought for Pakistan because there was a danger of denial of these human rights in this…