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Amita, it may not be entirely correct to say that Nehru led this bill of equal rights to property for women to secure inheritance for Vijayalaxmi Pandit. That will be unfair to that great man. As far as Nehrus are concerned, they had already bequeathed the property they owned to the nation.

Vajayalaxmi Pandit held various high offices in her own right and was well-off from her own income including pension. You do not have to have a sister to recognise problems of women. Besides, the credit of passing that revolutionary bill goes to the entire parliament. Amita, yor observation that he passed the law for his sister was like hard piece of rock in an otherwise delicious biryani.

One more good one Shekar : ..."was like hard piece of rock in an otherwise delicious biryani".... : )

We now await the Lokpal Bill! Let us hope the bill will make some dent in the disgusting world of corruption. We all are inhabitants and makers of that world, not just a few politicians.

I have seen it happen even today how brothers deprive their sisters (including widowed or divorced sisters) of their share in inherited property and get away with it because the generous women do not fight back and often sign papers without protest.

90 % of Property in the Walled City of Lahore , has similar litigation were property is under dispute , mostly because of , two wifes joint familes , as brothers do not want the sisters to own and use their share in inherited property.

Tahir Malik : The Indian law has given equal rights to the girl child to inherit property only from late 1990s. What is the current status in Pakistan ?

The Inheritance Laws were the same here in Pakistan after Partition , then the Islamic Shariat laws came in , and women get half the share ,its not the laws , the attitudes that create family disputes and litigation , the Government needs to strengthen the Property Taxation Laws so as to provide fair distribution.

Once a law is passed...attitudes are bound to change. People are the same everywhere. Indian greed is no different Pakistani or Italian greed.