Every district would have women's shelters and district-level panels to investigate reports of abuse and mandates the use of GPS bracelets to keep track of offenders [5] The bill aims is to promote gender equality in the province, it allows women to get a residence order, the victim has a right to stay in the house if she doesn't want to vacate it or the defendant has to provide an alternative accommodation to the victim if she wants so.
[8] Council of Islamic Ideology has also opposed the bill[9] while Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman has called the law as part to 'fulfill the foreign agenda'.
[14] Proponents of the bill have staged rally's to oppose the backlash by conservatives, it has been termed as the first time that a legislation provides protection through an in-built implementation mechanism to ensure speedy justice-delivery to victims.
Women victims of violence have to undergo a snake and ladder system of justice delivery in order to just lodge an FIR.
The establishment of Violence Against Women Centres will entirely change the current lethargic system by stream-lining the case-flow process and integrated the departments through a software.
[25] A joint action committee (JAC) comprising political and human rights activists and civil society members was formed to support the law.