KHAR: Political and religious parties and candidates for two National Assembly constituencies in Bajaur Agency, NA-43 and NA-44, have agreed to encourage local women to cast vote on May 11.The agreement came during a meeting here on Wednesday. Jamaat-i-Islami, Fata chief Sahibzada Haroonur Rasheed, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and candidate for NA-44 Shahabuddin Khan, Jamiat […]
MIRAMSHAH: An unknown group on Wednesday warned that women in a restive tribal region should not vote in elections, threatening punishment. “The people of Waziristan are hereby warned that they should not allow their women to cast votes and shouldn’t let any candidate influence them,” said a pamphlet. Signed by “Mujahideen”, the leaflets were thrown […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is the most dangerous place to be born in Asia as it has the highest first day mortality rate for babies in Asia and shares 6 per cent burden of the global first day deaths due to high rate of pre-term births, low birth weight, poor nutritional status of mothers, poor family […]
LAHORE: The upcoming elections are not the first that have been boycotted by the Ahmedis rather these are the eighth consecutive polls being boycotted by the minority community. Historically, the Ahmedis have not taken part in any election at any level after they were declared non-Muslims in the constitution in 1974. They boycotted the general […]
GILGIT: Inflation, poverty, an 18-year-old paralysed son, three school-going daughters, a jobless husband: Khadija Bibi, a housewife in Gilgit, saw no apparent light at the end of the tunnel. With many government projects stalled due to lack of funds, her husband, a contractor, was not expected to start earning anytime soon. Desperate times require desperate […]
LAHORE: A group of anti-Ahmadi activists and police dragged five members of the community from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained them for several hours here on Tuesday. The police eventually determined that they had not broken any blasphemy or terrorism laws, as alleged, and released them without registering an FIR. The […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to deploy lady health workers at women polling stations in the province on May 11 to meet shortages of policewomen required to perform security duty. Provincial information minister Musarrat Qadeem told a news conference here on Tuesday that lady health workers would be undergo necessary training to perform […]
by Imaduddin LAHORE: As many as 147 women are contesting election 2013 in 105 National Assembly and 301 women in 203 provincial assembly constituencies on general seats. As per data compiled by a research based organization and released by Aazar Ayaz, Executive Director TR to Media here on Monday shows that 90 women candidates are […]
KARACHI: The previous government remains historic in terms of empowering women and fight against violence and discrimination by unanimously passing bills to stop anti-women practices. This was stated at a round table dialogue with the press held on Monday. The attendees also discussed the issue related to pro-women legislation and expectations from the upcoming assemblies. […]
By Waqas NaeemPublished: The ANP candidate for NA-14 continues campaigning despite threats from militants. ISLAMABAD: Khurshid Begum Saeed’s admission into Parliament was fairly easy: the Awami National Party was compiling a list of women candidates for reserved seats in 2008 but did not have enough with a Bachelor’s degree. Someone suggested Khurshid Begum’s name and […]
MATEELA, May 5: For decades, not a single woman in this dusty village surrounded by wheat fields and orange trees has voted. And they aren’t likely to in the May 11 elections either. The village’s men have spoken. “It’s the will of my husband,” said one woman, Fatima Shamshad. “This is the decision of all […]
By Waqas Naeem ISLAMABAD: In Dera Ghazi Khan’s NA-172, Sardar Maqsood Khan Leghari has long established his rule. However, in the wake of the upcoming elections, tables have turned for the former member of Punjab Assembly as he faces threats anew. Enter Zartaj Gul Akhwand, a 28-year-old candidate contesting NA-172 from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) ticket. […]
KARACHI: The Sindh government sales and display resource centre established last year to promote handicrafts and other products of women entrepreneurs and artisans from less developed areas of the province has been closed since January, it emerged on Saturday. Sources privy to the project said the sales and display resource centre was shifted from the […]
Women candidates and voters seem determined not to be intimidated by bomb blasts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Karachi and elsewhere in the country By Javed Aziz Khan Fear grips politicians in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Women candidates contesting on party tickets or looking for a reserved seat feel threatened too. And not without reason. On April 28 in […]
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