GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND ITS IMPACT ON PAKISTANI WOMEN MARRIED TO AFGHAN REFUGEES (1980-2018).

Gender discrimination in nationality law of Pakistan not only undermines women's equality in citizenship but also violates their right and results in hardships for their families. State's Nationality law that discriminate women to have equal rights of citizenship undermines them to access healthcare, education, employment, family unity, inheritance, mobility and property rights. The current research highlights the problems faced by the women married to Afghan refugees through thematic and discourse analysis of the interviewees using CAQDA, i.e., MAXQDA-2022 software. The study is qualitative in nature and the analysis is based on a coding model. The sample is taken through snowball sampling of the population under study. The research shows how unequal nationality laws violate women right to get citizenship and obstruct their equality in the family. The Pakistani law of citizenship also impacts the enjoyment of women right by them as well as their children and spouses. Gender equality in nationality laws is not only fundamental to equal citizenship of women but it also support families' wellbeing, children rights to identity and sustainable development. Thereby, it will benefit the society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]