M Ilyas Khan in BBC
A Pakistani human rights organisation says violence against women more than doubled to over 4,000 cases last year. It also says that more suicide attacks took place in the country in 2007 than in all previous years combined.
Conservative social practices and religious extremism are identified as the main cause of gender inequalities. Islamic militants have increasingly resorted to suicide attacks to outgun the government troops they are fighting in the northwest.
Read the 2007 Human Rights Commission for Pakistan report here
