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ACT VII OF 2014 ACT VII OF 2014 BALOCHISTAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (PREVENTION AND PROTECTION) ACT, 2014 An Act to make provisions for protection against domestic violence. [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 12th February, 2014] 4. Domestic Violence.---Domestic Violence includes but is not limited to, all intentional acts of gender based or other physical or psychological abuse committed by an accused against women, children or other vulnerable persons with whom the accused is or has been in a domestic relationship including but not limited to.- (a) "assault" as defined in section 351 of the Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860) hereinafter referred to in this section "as the said Code"; (b) "attempt" as defined in section 511 of the said Code to commit any of the offences enumerated in this section; (c) "criminal force" as defined in section 350 of the said Code; (d) "criminal intimidation" as defined in section 503 of the said Code; (e) "economic abuse" includes deprivation of economic or financial resources or prohibition or restriction to continued access to such resources which the aggrieved person is entitled to use or enjoy by virtue of the domestic relationship including but not limited to household necessities for the aggrieved person and her children, any property jointly or separately owned by the aggrieved person, payment of rental related to the house hold, and maintenance; (f) entry into aggrieved person's residence without his or her consent, where the parties do not share the same residence; (g) "harassment" as defined in section 2(1) clause (j) of this Act; (h) "hurt as defined in section 332 of the said Code; (i) "mischief" as defined in section 425 of the said Code against the property of the aggrieved person; (j) "physical abuse" means any act or conduct which is of such a nature as to cause bodily pain, harm or danger to life, limb, or health or impair the health or development of the aggrieved person and includes assault, criminal force and criminal intimidation; (k) "stalking" includes, but is not limited to-- (i) following, pursing or accosting the aggrieved person against his or her wishes; and (ii) watching or loitering outsides or near the building or place where the aggrieved person resides or works for gains or carries on business or visits frequently; (l) "sexual abuse" includes any conduct of a sexual nature that abuses, humiliates, degrades or otherwise violates the dignity of the aggrieved person; (m) "verbal and emotional abuse" means any or persistent degrading or humiliating conduct of the accused towards the aggrieved person, including but not limited to-- (i) insults or ridicule; (ii) threat to cause physical pain; and (iii) threat of malicious prosecution; (n) wilful or negligent abandonment of the aggrieved person; (o) "wrongful confinement" as defined in section 340 of the said Code; and (p) any other repressive or abusive behavior towards the aggrieved person where such a conduct harms or may cause imminent danger of harm to the safety, health or well-being of the aggrieved person.