News Coverage of Physical Violence against Women: Where Do We Position

Abstract

Historically, for decades, women’s have been treated as a property of males and as a servants working in their homes, by no concerning their feelings, emotions and sentiments. Nevertheless from past two decades the status of women is totally change in mentality of male and on society level because of laws passed recently by national and international organization to protect the rights of women’s. This research would be analysing the representation of physical violence against women in Pakistani dailies and to investigate the news coverage about the issue in daily Jang and daily Khabrain. Moreover the current investigation will highlight the issue regarding the said issue of violence against the women by exploration of the intensity in the leading papers of the Pakistani press.