MUZAFFARABAD: Terming education and gender equality key to social welfare and community development, the speakers during a workshop stressed that discriminatory policies supporting gender disparity must be revisited. They said that a strong community could be built by giving high priority at structural and functional levels to the issue of girls` education and gender equity. […]
LARKANA: Two men and a woman paid price with their lives for marrying in courts without their parents` consent. They were gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants in separate incidents in Qambar and Naudero towns on Thursday. Shabana Chandio and Zahid Chandio who had married in court about three years ago were hit near Qambar bypass […]
By: Mohammad Hussain Khan HYDERABAD: There appears to be no respite for women who continue to suffer different forms of violence and run from pillar to post to bring their tormentors, usually their husbands, to justice as the world observes the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women on Friday. Hyderabad`s teenaged Hameeda Rustamani […]
KARACHI: A 32-year-old woman, who had allegedly killed her husband and attempted to dispose of the body by boiling its parts, and her nephew were arrested on Thursday, police and witnesses said. The Shah Faisal police said that the 40-year-old victim, Ahmed Abbas, son of Rustum, was the second husband of Zainab Bibi, who claimed […]
By: Muhammad Sadaqat PATTAN/KOHISTAN: After depriving women voters of their constitutional right to cast their ballots, only male tribal voters participated in the by-polls held in the Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) assembly’s seat KP-61 Kohistan I here on Thursday. Officials of the Election Commission, however, categorically denied reports of barring women from election booths. By-election polls […]
By: Sehrish Wasif ISLAMABAD: Most cases of violence against women in Pakistan go unreported. However indicators show that instances of violence against women are on the rise. According to data collected between January and November, 56 cases of violence were reported in District Headquarter Hospital, 47 in Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) and 26 in Holy […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday announced National Peace Prize and Rs 500,000 as encouragement for 14-year old Malala Yousufzai, a young student from Swat. Malala was one of the five nominees from 98 world-wide, vying for an international peace prize for children. The award was announced by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel […]
KARACHI: Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Media Sharmila Farooqui has said that the present democratic government was firmly committed to empower the women and to give them their due status in the society. Talking to a delegation of women at her residence on Thursday, Farooqui said that marriage of girls to Holy Quran, exchange […]
ISLAMABAD: In compliance with Article 19 and 19A of the constitution freedom of expression and access to information should be guaranteed for citizens in the troubled Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a basic part of the political reforms and the President of Pakistan being jurisdictional authority of the area needs to ensure this. The […]
Sir: Social media is bringing a revolution to the world but we, the people of Pakistan, are still far from that ‘revolution’. We use social websites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) just for entertainment. The youth of this land upload their funny photos, videos and tagged pictures and songs from different websites for other friends. On […]
Sir: I recently watched a poor woman’s report on TV whose husband had tortured her on a family issue and also killed his four-month-old child in Sargodha. Almost every other day we hear, read or watch stories of domestic violence. Women and children are beaten, abused and tortured severely by their fathers, husbands, brothers and […]
LAHORE — The youth, who gunned down his 20-year-old sister and mother at his residence in Kahna police area and fled away from the crime scene late on Tuesday night, is still at large, police investigators said on Wednesday. Police sources said the investigators are conducting the raids to arrest the killer who killed his […]
KARACHI: It is a small but significant dilemma — what does an unmarried woman write in a NADRA form when she wants to register an adopted baby? The only options are father and husband. Why should guardian not be added, asked Ayesha Jalil, who has gone to court with a petition. On Wednesday, the Sindh […]
Karachi: There are about 12 million home-based workers in the country and 70 percent of them are women. This was stated by the Sindh Labour Minister, Amir Nawab Khan, on Wednesday. He was presiding over a meeting pertaining to legislation regarding home-based workers. The Executive Director of Homenet (Pakistan), Umme Laila, and Rubina Brohi of […]
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