Citizenship and unmarried certificate in Pakistan: Citizenship and unmarried certificate in Pakistan is the very basis of all rights to nationality. If legislation in this area suffers serious neglect and is wholly discriminatory, the rights of women cannot ever be respected. Consequently, it is of particular concern to this Commission that the Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951, contains examples of both conscious and subconscious discrimination against women. The second flowing simply from embedded habit, unmindful of implications. First, section 5 is prima facie discriminatory: Citizenship by descent: Subject to the provisions of section 3 a person born after the commencement of this Act, shall be a citizen of Pakistan by descent if his father is a citizen of Pakistan at the time of his birth and have right to unmarried certificate in Pakistan . Thus, according to this section, only children born to a Pakistani father and a foreign mother can acquire citizenship by descent. Childr...