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‘More than 300,000 women in Lahore still without identity’

* Seminar highlights need to include all eligible women in electoral process * Participants say women are an important catalyst of change LAHORE: The participants of a seminar were informed that more than 300,000 women are deprived of their identity in Lahore, which was an alarming situation. NA-130 under the umbrella of SANGAT Foundation conducted […]


A woman’s fate

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For as long as one can remember, Karachi has been beset by killings. Though these days it seems that it is getting easier to murder a woman and get away with it. Murders of women are reported from all corners of the country, almost on a daily basis, and without a doubt, many cases go […]


Gender inequality in education

By: Nazila Isgandarova The world is happy to know that Malala Yousufzai from the Swat Valley in Pakistan is doing well and has been discharged from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in the UK. Yousufzai has become a hero for the majority of people in the world for challenging the anti-intellectual Taliban in her […]


Runaway Afghan couple: DNA tests show eloped woman is mother of two

By Umer Farooq PESHAWAR: DNA tests carried out on the orders of a family court confirmed that eloped Afghan woman Maryam is the mother of four-year-old Saba and three-year-old Husna, who she earlier said were her nieces. Afghan couple Haiwad, 23, and Maryam, 22, eloped to Pakistan and got married in May, 2012 in Abbottabad. […]