Sir: Pakistan is considered to be a conservative country in which most of the women hailing from middle and lower classes are deprived of mobility and they are not independent in their lives. Furthermore, most of the Pakistani women do not have an identity of their own. They are known as the sister, daughter, mother and wife of man and depend entirely on men for their economic needs. There are various trends in society which legally and socially maintain a low status for the women in general. What binds the women of Pakistan the most are all negative plus conservative attitudes and social conditions; such as the fact that they are denied an identity of their own, that they have no access to economic or social power, that they are considered useless and burdens on their own families and a constant threat to their honour of their households. It is precisely these myths and social conditions of women as shaped by the cultures of Pakistan which define the Pakistani women. In addition, Pakistan being a multidimensional country; consists of different people with their own cultures and languages. Consequently, they have their own social conditions, myths, ideas, norms and values with cultural patterns which bind Pakistani women as a whole. Moreover, women’s access to economic power has been reduced there is a general bias against those women who work outside their homes. It has been supported by the myth that it is the man who earns the bread of the family but cooking of that bread has totally been ignored. On the other hand, the division of private and public sphere is another social condition which goes against the mobilisation of women in Pakistan. The division of private and public sphere started from the capitalisation of agriculture productions, the expansion of industrialisation, national and international patterns of unequal development, the impact of migrant labour, inflation and education and the emergence of new classes and conflicts all have a relationship on the position and participation of women in the Pakistani society. One of the various trends include discriminatory social institutions in Muslim countries in general and Pakistan in particular; such as wearing veil by women, man bread-winner, honour-killings and division of private and public spheres. Women are totally bounded under such social institutions and mobilisation of women is under threat in an extreme way. In the same way, a veiled woman thus becomes a symbol of social status which simply supports the myth of man that I am so much rich that my woman does not have to work in the fields or in public sphere. Furthermore, one of the worst methods of controlling women is attaching the honour of a household to women which results in honour killings. MUHAMMAD FAROOQ RASHEED Islamabad