Women in the southern Helmand province have complained that their brothers are not giving them inheritance right in father’s property.
According to Shariat, women also have due share in father’s property, but now brothers are depriving them of their right.
Makay, a resident of Tor Tang area of Lashkargah, said that ‘after father death, my brothers divided the land among themselves and deprived us of our due inheritance right.’
Similarly, Bibi Shafia, 50, a resident of Zarghon village said that ‘My brothers say we don’t give you right, because now you are no more a member of our family.’
However, there are some cases where the women have themselves submitted their right to brothers because of poor economic conditions.
Fouzia Uloomi, head of the Women Affairs, said quite many women were registering complaint against her brothers in her office regularly. She further said that the problem is not limited to Helmand, but is engulfing the entire country.
Nevertheless, Mohammad Jamil, a resident of Lashkargah and a shopkeeper, said after marriage, sisters became members of others family and no brother would want to hand over his property to someone else.
