“Marriages are making girls vulnerable,” remarked Khalida Ghaus of the Social Policy and Development Centre. KARACHI: Young women are safer in their parents’ homes, a study on the socioeconomic violence against women in Karachi has found. “Marriages are making girls vulnerable,” remarked Khalida Ghaus of the Social Policy and Development Centre as she presented the […]
ISLAMABAD: Unhealthy diets and physical inactivity are key risk factors for the major non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes in media persons. Consultant Cardiologist, Shifa International Hospital, Dr Saeedullah Shah told APP on Tuesday that due to work load, media persons are more vulnerable to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and advised them to […]
Ayesha Haroon A little more than four weeks ago, Rush Limbaugh, host of a right-wing radio talk show in the US, called a female university student “a slut”. In the weeks that followed Limbaugh’s show lost almost one hundred advertisers. With more than 14,000 radio stations and, an estimated, 80 per cent of the population […]
KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar stressed the need for economic empowerment of women and female literacy so they could get financial independence, be able to raise their voice and struggle for their rights. These views were expressed at the launching of two reports, `Socioeconomic cost of violence against women` and `Gender dimensions of development induced […]
KARACHI: Ethnic, sectarian and politically linked violence in the city has killed at least 300 people so far this year, a human rights organisation said on Tuesday. Parts of the city had become battlegrounds in the last week, with authorities unable to prevent spiralling violence blamed on activists from political parties representing competing ethnic groups. […]
By: Ashraf Javed CHAGMALAI, SOUTH WAZIRISTAN – No less than 650-km away from Lahore, the capital of the largest Punjab province where girls wearing jeans are seen strolling around shopping malls, the young woman are chained in caves in South Waziristan. They are chained by the century-old tribal customs, not by the religion, in this […]
“First I killed Habibullah. Then I killed my wife,” says husband, unaware that his wife had survived the shooting and was recovering at Rajanpur DHQ hospital. RAJANPUR: Two people were killed and another was critically injured on Monday in ‘honour’ crimes in Rajanpur. Basti Chachar resident Hafeezullah shot his wife, Parveen Bibi, 17, and relative, […]
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at the ‘Collective Action for Ensuring Women’s and Girl’s Participation in Electoral Processes in Pakistan’ forum on Monday highlighted the need for women’s and girl’s participation in electoral processes as an important channel for ensuring that they maintain both voice and visibility, and are part of decision making processes which is essential for […]
KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the media should avoid spreading sensation by ‘misreporting of facts regarding law and order situation of Karachi’. Talking to media persons here on Monday, he said there was no target killing yesterday but I saw the newspapers today in which they stated that six person were killed […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in a statement on Monday said there are difficulties in verifying the cases of disappearance in Balochistan and urged all concerned to play their role in documenting these cases. The HRCP said disappearances still continue in Pakistan and the body was facing hurdles in documenting the same. […]
Jamal Khurshid Karachi: The Sindh High Court on Monday issued notices to the advocate general Sindh, prosecutor general Sindh and former Punjab Assembly MPA Bilal Khar on a petition for reopening the Fakhra Yunus acid-throwing case. Bilal Khar, son of former Punjab governor Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, was acquitted by the District and Sessions Court […]
EVERY year in Pakistan about 100 cases of acid throwing are reported to the police. Although the media has been showing reports and highlights those cases, but no one is making any effort for the remedy of acid-attack victims. Women are affected by acid attacks across the country and they are surviving by themselves. Many […]
KARACHI: National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, Senate Chairman Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah have felicitated president of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society Sarmad Ali and secretary general Masood Hamid on their unanimous election to the posts for the year 2012-13. They have […]
KARACHI: The annual meeting of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) General Council held on March 31 has elected the Executive Committee for the year 2012-13, and unanimously elected Sarmad Ali as President, Mehtab Khan as Senior Vice President, Masood Hamid as Secretary General, Ramiza Majeed Nizami as Vice President, Imtinan Shahid as Joint Secretary […]
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