Abstract
Women status in Pakistan is a complicated phenomenon due to multi-cultural ethnicities. The situation of women in Pakistan is lamentable because of non-implementation of pro-women legislation. The focus of my study is to unveil the lacunas and the barricades in the enforcement of laws. These barricades provide a vacant ground to the violence, injustice, gender inequality and cruelty against women which has become an integral value and staunch belief of a society. My findings from qualitative and quantitative data analysis clearly depicts that numerous multifarious dimensions and immense obstructions are prominent in the way of women protection laws. Such as intrinsic challenges including; dominating and misogynistic behavior of men against women, confession of the fact of women command in the possession of men and privilege and dignity acquired by men and contrary to this social ignorance and neglecting attitude towards women. Simultaneously extrinsic challenges such as; cultural benchmarks on women‘s status, impotence of mass media, patriarchy in social milieu, patriarchal bigotry in law dispensing agencies, ascendancy of sociocultural standards, illiteracy, legal illiteracy, fear of notoriety among females, incapacity of justice system, evasion of justice, renunciation of legal reforms, cynical role of police and sterility of NGOs are stern impediments.