PESHAWAR: The local police arrested a key accused in the killing of a young woman at the Lady Reading Hospital last week, a source said on Tuesday.The source said Jamshed of Pajaggi was arrested for involvement in the killing of a young woman Noor Bibi, whose body was later dumped in the bathroom of the […]
Karachi: Disagreement over the distribution of party tickets on reserved seats for women is fuelling internal dissent among the PML-F’s women members who have been affiliated with the party since 2000. Sources said on Tuesday that the party’s media cell chief awarded the tickets to his favourites, including his wife, “as these ticket winners were […]
Shazia Hasan KARACHI: “Feminists have started calling history ‘her story’ because of the missing contributions of women from history books,” said minister for Human Rights and Women Development in Sindh Anis Haroon at a seminar, ‘Pakistani women in a changing society’, held at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (Szabist) on Tuesday. […]
Acid-throwing is a form of violent assault, a horrific act of burning a person with acid, with the intention of injuring or disfiguring a woman out of jealousy or revenge. According to the Acid Survivor’s Foundation in Pakistan, there is a high survival rate amongst victims of acid attacks. Consequently the victim is faced with […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar The theme of the 74 paintings on display is derived from the stories of countless women, who are deprived of their rights and dreams by our society. The artist prefers using oil on canvas to portray the nuances and complexities of women’s life in our patriarchal society. One of her paintings titled […]
AMID the din of election rallies, the clash of political workers and scuffles and more over tickets and constituencies, two women from Pakistan’s conservative areas quietly stepped forward and filed nomination papers for the May 11 polls. It was a big step for those two women — Badam Zari from Bajaur and Nusrat Begum from […]
Waseem Ahmad Shah PESHAWAR: The provincial election commissioner on Monday turned down around 100 nomination papers filed against seats reserved for women in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as their names were not present in the priority lists submitted by their respective political parties. An official at the PEC office said around 229 nomination papers were […]
KHAR: Badam Zari, the first tribal woman to come forward to contest for a National Assembly seat from Bajaur Agency, has said that she wants to become a powerful voice of women of tribal areas. Addressing a press conference at her house here on Monday, she said that her decision to contest the election was […]
LAHORE: Militants on Sunday targeted a government-run girls school with explosives, however no causality was reported, officials said. According to local police, unknown militants had planted explosives material in government school of the Bannu city which exploded with a loud bang. Resultantly the school building was badly damaged but no injury or causality was reported […]
SUKKUR: Three people were killed on the pretext of Karo-Kari in different areas of the Sukkur region on Saturday. Police said in Village Kakri in the limits of Lakha Road Police Station accused Shah Dost Brohi shot dead his daughter Dur-e-Bakht and her alleged paramour Abdul Qadir Brohi. Later, the accused surrendered himself before the […]
By: Anwarullah Khan and Haleem Asad KHAR/TIMERGARA: Two women, one from Bajaur tribal agency and the other from Lower Dir district, made history on Sunday when they became the first tribal women to file nomination papers to contest elections for National Assembly. Election Commission officials told Dawn that 40-year-old Badam Zari, wife of Sultan Khan, […]
PESHAWAR: ‘They are girls. Why are you going to great pains for their education?’ That’s what relatives used to ask Ms Taj Mir from Ambaar area of Mohmand Agency when there was conflict and she was concerned about her daughters’ education. “I was much worried thinking if my daughters would stop going to the school,” […]
A seminar titled “Female Education in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)” was recently held to discuss factors that can be utilised to improve girls’ education in the province. The seminar was organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) to discuss findings of its long-term impact assessment study, begun in 2006, to analyse the effectiveness of a stipend […]
By: Samira Shackle Last week, I visited the Acid Survivors Foundation in Islamabad. Acid attacks, in which acid or other corrosive substances are thrown at someone, with the intent to disfigure, are a particularly brutal form of gender-based violence. And it is, on the whole, gender based. While men are occasionally attacked, the vast majority […]
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