By: Naziha Syed Ali For Bashir and his wife Nafisa*, an act as simple as setting foot on their native village spells certain death. They have not been back since they got married six years ago. Their crime: they fell in love. Not even the fact that they are now parents of three little boys […]
By: Shahzada Irfan Ahmed There have been several attempts to sensitise the masses on the menace of honour crimes and to discourage the practice of punishing women in the name of honour in the country. For example, there were training sessions and material distributions by the National Commission on the Status for Women, an establishment […]
By: Saadia Salahuddin When a woman leaves home without the consent of her family it has to be the boldest step for her, in our culture at least. She does so mostly under threat to her life or, sometimes, because she is not allowed to marry of her own choice or is subjected to physical […]
SUKKUR: A man and a woman were killed on the pretext of Karo Karo here on Saturday. According to the police, Roshan Ali and his accomplice Akbar, cousins to one another, murdered their cousin Zahida, daughter of Ghulam Mustafa, and her alleged paramour Bakht Ali, son of Imam Bakhsh, in the name of honour in […]
KARAK: Police on Saturday arrested 15 co-accused of Ibrahim Shah, the main accused in the murder case of Alam Zeb, and demolished their hideouts during a search operation in Shnawa Guddikhel area of Karak. Shah, the alleged killer of Alam Zeb – brother of rap victim Uzma Ayub – is reportedly taking shelter with some […]
CHARSADDA: A government girls’ school was damaged in an explosion in Ibrahimzai village in Sardheri area on Thursday night, sources said. The sources said that explosive devices planted by the militants in the building of the Government Girls Middle School in Ibrahimzai village went off at night, causing partial damage to the boundary wall, a […]
ISLAMABAD: National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) has submitted to the Ministry of Human Rights four draft bills concerning women issues and personal laws of the minorities living in Pakistan. The drafts bills are: Hindu Marriages Act 2011, Christian Marriages Amendment Act 2011, Christian Divorce Amendment Act 2011, and Domestic Violence (Criminal Law […]
Karachi: In 1997 Fouzia Saeed, along with 10 other women, resigned from a well-paid job in Islamabad as a result of incessant harassment from their boss. Thirteen years later, Saeed launched ‘Working with Sharks’, a long-in-the-making book about the incident and more, at The Second Floor (T2F) on Thursday. But the session was more than […]
KARACHI: An investigation officer on Thursday submitted an interim charge-sheet in court against a suspect for allegedly killing his three daughters. The suspect was booked for allegedly killing his daughters in Orangi Town in October. The investigation officer submitted the charge-sheet before a judicial magistrate (west) and the court accepted it for hearing and sent […]
LAHORE: Over 8,000 incidents of violence against women were reported in a recently-conducted study in Pakistan, indicating a 13 per cent increase as compared to year 2008, while an alarming fact is that nobody knows how many more cases remain unreported. This was stated by White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan (WRCP) country director Omar Aftab while […]
LAHORE: The Lahore Transport Company launched on Thursday the Pink Bus Service for women only in the city through a private bus company at Route No-1 (RA Bazaar to Sanda). MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the service. “Initially we have introduced this facility with only one bus for the women at Route No-1 and the […]
ABBOTABAD: In another appalling act of misogyny, a group of armed men entered the house of a married couple in Kanthiali village on Tuesday night, stripped them and fled after taking nude pictures of them. Naseer Ahmed told the police that he was asleep with his family when Safeer, Arif and eight other men armed […]
By Muhammad Sadaqat Police arrest three suspects in the first case, while suspect in second case still at large. HARIPUR: While the government has passed several bills to prosecute discriminatory practices, violence against women continues to rise dramatically, suggesting that more needs to be done to implement these laws to protect the vulnerable. Two married […]
Karachi: A petition was filed in the Sindh High Court on Wednesday, seeking production of some women and children who are allegedly being detained by the Qambar police. Petitioner Mohammad Mithal Chandio, a farmer in Bityun village in Qambar, submitted that the police raided his house on December 27 and maltreated his family members. He […]
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