By: Zeeshan Adhi On December 21, 2011, the National Assembly of Pakistan passed a bill for the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission. A question that may arise at the outset is: Why a government sponsored National Human Rights Commission is required in the first place? This question is particularly relevant in the context […]
By: Nasim Zehra No coup is about to take place in a Pakistan where the independent media has ensured that every move by every player on the national power scene is examined threadbare. This exercise in itself is both a leveller and a restrainer. Had there been an independent electronic media in October 1999 there […]
GUJRANWALA: A woman and her husband on Thursday filed a compliant with Saddar police against the woman’s brothers for attacking them and threatening to kill them. Iqra Shahzadi alleged in the complaint that her brothers Asif, Qasim, Imran and their accomplices attacked her and her husband Ijaz’s family at their house in Jaleel Town. She […]
PESHAWAR: Uthmankhel Qaumi Movement’s (UQM’s) grand jirga has demanded full-fledged educational facilities for girls in Bajaur, Malakand and Momand Agencies. The jirga was held at the remotest village of Khanori, Malakand Agency, which was attended by 200 elders of Uthmankhel tribe from all nearby villages namely, Selai Patay, Badama, Dherai, Seend Ghara and Kot Manzaray […]
NAROWAL – 73 people were murdered and 22 women were raped in different incidents besides 646 hits of dacoity, robbery, snatching and theft were registered in the district during the year 2011. The statistics collected from 13 police stations and 5 police posts of the district show that people were deprived of their valuable belongings […]
LAHORE – City police on Wednesday handed over the dead body of an 18-year-old girl to her family after the autopsy. Resident of Teeza Girah, Anam Bibi was shot dead by her brother in the name of honour in Manawan police area late on Tuesday night. Police investigators said that Muhammad Usman shot dead his […]
By Muhammad Farooq SWABI: The militants destroyed two rooms of a girls’ primary school in Razar Tehsil on Wednesday as they tried to blow up yet another educational institution in Swabi district, officials said. The Government Girls’ Primary School Shagai in Turlandi area is located in a congested area. The explosion awoke the local people […]
Karachi: With the cases of rape witnessing a sharp rise in the past few months, a seven-year-old girl was raped and then strangulated while an unidentified woman was raped and her body was cut into two in separate incidents on Wednesday. Zianab, the seven-year-old daughter of a fruit vendor, went missing on Tuesday evening. Her […]
KARACHI: Police found on Wednesday a woman`s decapitated body, cut up into many pieces, at a service lane on Shaheed-iMillat Road. The police said that some area residents informed them about a suspicious bag at a service lane close to the Hill Park. The police reached the spot and found the headless body of a […]
Lahore: As part of the Women in Business Conference Series (WIBCON) for professional women, an international women leaders’ summit is being organised on January 25 in the city. The speakers of the conference include Rokia Afzal Rehman, a former minister from Bangladesh, who will deliver the keynote address on enterprising women lessons from South and […]
By Sumaira Khan Tribal areas have no female representatives in parliament. ISLAMABAD: For women of a strictly patriarchal and rigidly homosocial region, their only voice are their male counterparts. The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) is the only region of Pakistan that has no female representation in the National Assembly, or the Senate. In addition, […]
Sir: Women’s abuse is a well recognised and much discussed issue in Pakistan and yet no solid solution on how to avert this crisis has dawned upon us. A certain section of the country blames the feudalistic thinking of the majority but what seems to stand, in a fundamentally theistic country like Pakistan, between women […]
LAHORE: Several civil society organisations have agreed during a discussion that all the state organs and institutions must function within their constitutional limits. The discussion was held on the situation created by the memo affair at the HRCP auditorium here on Tuesday. The participants came to the conclusion that the principle of parliamentís being the […]
Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: A woman lawmaker highlighted a horrendous incident of Karo-kari vengeance in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday and demanded punishment for the culprits and measures to curb the scourge in the province. The law minister said he had already sought a report on the Monday incident and assured the house that the […]
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