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TY - JOUR AU - Sadia Rafiq, AU - Dr. Farhat Naseem Alvi, PY - 2024/12/31 Y2 - 2026/06/25 TI - FROM SUFFERING TO SAFEGUARDS: REFRAMING THE LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF CHILD ABUSE IN PAKISTAN JF - ` JA - ASSAJ VL - 2 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.assajournal.com/index.php/36/article/view/876 SP - 1542-1550 AB - <table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>This article offers a multidimensional investigation into child abuse in Pakistan, reconceptualizing it not merely as a legal or moral crisis, but as a systemic failure embedded in socio-political, digital, and theological structures. By integrating jurisprudential analysis, Islamic epistemology, and data-driven evidence, it proposes a transformative framework that transcends punitive responses and instead emphasizes preventative, rehabilitative, and theological recalibration. It concludes with innovative policy prescriptions, anchored in maqasid al-shariah and contemporary child rights discourse, for institutional reform.</em></p><p><em><strong>Keywords</strong>: child abuse, legal anthropology, Shariah hermeneutics, cyber abuse, maqasid al-shariah, Pakistani jurisprudence, structural violence</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -