This research paper intends to explore issues of female prostitutes in Pakistan. It will observe prostitution as an institute from way back when Arabs arrived in subcontinent and Muslims ruled in India. Further, it will come to today’s Pakistan and problem of current women who belongs to this profession.

1. FEMALE PROSTITUTION IN PAKISTAN: AN
INSIGHT OF MARGINALIZED WOMEN
Sidra Jabeen Khan

2. INTRODUCTION
 Explore issues
 Taboo culture
 Brothels
 Society’s dark side
 Research problem: issues & causes

3. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
 What are the issues of these women?
 What are causes of these issues?
 Is kidnapping and forcing also leads to
prostitution?
 Does feudal system in Pakistan prospers this
profession?
 What is the role of unemployment in
extending this profession?

4. HYPOTHESIS
“To create awareness among people about
these females issues and to bring out their
actual problems so they can be understood
better and in that way Government should
provide them means to leave this profession”

5. METHODOLOGY/SOURCES
 Articles
 Thesis
 Cases
 Literature
 In-person interviews

6. FEMALE PROSTITUTION
 Strictly prohibited
 Red light area
 Male chauvinism & female’s propaganda
 Unrespectable
 Cast out of social circle
 Individual call girls

7. ISSUES OF MARGINALIZED WOMEN
 Corrupt society
 Getting a job
 Poverty
 Social issues
 Injustice
 Immoral and unethical attitudes

8. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
 Profession for money
 Cases observed
 Rural or remote areas
 Private matter

9. POVERTY
 Most driven and crucial factor
 Can’t quit
 No other means of income
 28 year old prostitute & Dancer: Shehla
“my past is my curse, I have no way out”
 Dilemma of society
 Blind end

10. ILLITERACY AND IGNORANCE
 No education
 Kidnapping
 Black mailed
 Sold out
 Married
 Trafficked to foreign countries
 Ignorant parents
 Example of a girl: Jiya

11. FEUDAL SYSTEM
 Powerful
 Wealthy
 Exploits women
 Victims
 Never allow masses to be educated &
employed
 Poverty of people
 Evil curse

12. LOW LEVELS OF UN-EMPLOYMENT
 Marginalized class
 Evil cults
 Hotspots for call girls
 Example: Naina

13. FEARS & NO RIGHTS OF FEMALE PROSTITUTES
 Live in fears
 No rights
 Not recognized
 Considered as dirt
 No man marries them
 Live in paranoia
 Born in red light areas

14. SOLUTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS
 ASEAN member (Pakistan)
 Public awareness on big scale
 Eliminations of Prejudice against Women
 Shelter and Residence to Prostitutes
 Legal Mechanism for living a decent life and
Society
 Setting up of Counseling and Trauma
Centers
 Making rights for female prostitutes

15. CONCLUSION
 Quite common
 Poverty
 Illiteracy
 Fast expansion
 Fear
 Way in, no way out
 Government’s responsibility

16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Hussain Lodhi (2012) Prostitution in Pakistan News Mug
December 03-2012
 Sehrish Wasif (2012) What Drives Prostitution, Daily Express
Tribune dated 14-09-2010.
 Amna Siddiqui (2011) Criminalized Buying of Sexual Services in
Pakistan Online dated 06-09-2011.
 Amjad Hussain (2013) Exploring the issue of runaway women in
Pakistan: a call for social and legal change (Journal of Law and
Social Research (JLSR) No.4 (2013) pp. 59-72)
 Ghulam Saghir Shahid (2009) Do Male Attitudes Obstruct Female
Participation? The Case of Education and Labour Force
Participation in District Lahore, Pakistan (The Hague, the
Netherlands
November, 2009)