[9][10] Prolonged illness, infertility, disability, chronic illness, and mental health issues are some of the reasons for divorces along with western influence, decreasing trust and tolerance vis a vis the joint family system, unemployment, and financial stress, decreasing religious value education too are some of the reasons for an increase in the divorce rate in Pakistan.
[2] Azher and Hafiza study on smaller sample size attribute reasons to in-laws interference, lack of mutual understanding, financial exploitation, and torturous environment.
[2] According to Sulema Jahangir due to politically influential conservative mindset spread by Islamist clergy in south Asia many Muslim women bear with abusive marriages to avoid risk of finding themselves on the street.
[8] It is not western influences or women behavior responsible for increasing divorce rate in Pakistan but cost of breaking up marriage to Pakistani male is minimal.
Maintenance awarded to children is minimal, and even after giving lifetime service to her family, women don't get share in income or assets of their parting husband.
[15] Referring to placard slogan “Divorced and happy!” Dawn images column says that Pakistani children are made to witness depressed, loveless, toxic marriages, while men too are responsible for divorces only women are held responsible and stigmatized, while as per the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, percentage of married women have experienced sexual abuse, particularly domestic rape is up to 47%.