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Daily Archives: October 9, 2016

Greater executive role for women in media urged

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  In order to cater to gender equality in the media houses, Unesco and Uks, an NGO, organised a national consultation, titled, “Gender-sensitive guidelines for women in the media in South Asia”, at a hotel on Saturday. The consultation was to refine and validate the guidelines for women in the media at a conference held […]


Restoring the glory of Sindh’s cultural sites

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KARACHI: Overlooking vast farmland and a Rangers installation, sits the Muhammad Bin Qasim Fort Tower, formerly a dilapidated ruin but now restored to its original glory. The government of Sindh’s culture, tourism and antiquities department has decided to take the matter of heritage site restoration into their own hands by handing it over to a team […]


Posters calling for ‘beheading’ transwomen surface on Tariq Road

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KARACHI: A number of hateful posters have surfaced at a mall on Tariq Road – one of the city’s most vibrant shopping centres – lending credence to the idea of ‘beheading’ transwomen. ‘Hijray mard hain [Transwomen are men]’ are the words inscribed in large, bold font on the posters. The words are given as a […]


Arrest for cyber stalking

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FOR all the wondrous possibilities of the internet, the anonymity it affords can bring out some of the worst impulses in men. Online spaces can appear inviting to misogynists where they can, in the safety of their cloaked identities, slander and humiliate women at will. On Friday, an assistant professor at Karachi University’s psychology department […]