Karachi: A man allegedly shot his 22-year-old wife dead on Wednesday at their residence in the Ali Muhammad Brohi Goth Mawaish, 22, the wife of Muhammad Mujahid suffered bullet wounds when her husband opened fire at her after a heated exchange. The suspected murderer managed to flee after the incident, while locals neighbours to the […]
PARIS: The Taliban are fighting a lost cause and must accept peace talks, the father of Malala Yousufzai said on Wednesday, accepting a key French award for the schoolgirl shot for campaigning for girls’ education. In an impassioned speech after accepting the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom on behalf of the 15-year-old, Ziauddin […]
The decomposed and strangulated body of a young woman, believed to be a gang rape victim, was found in a blanket in a Nullah near Madina Colony in the Sachal police jurisdiction. A mobile unit shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem. A lady medico-legal officer at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Society for Training and Development (PSTD) announced on Tuesday to organise the fifth annual one-day conference for working women titled Women in Business Conference (WIBCON) on January 29. “The conference is aimed at assisting professionals in achieving excellence in today’s competitive environment,” said Aamir Niazi, president of PSTD – a non-governmental organisation – […]
SUKKUR: A woman committed suicide by jumping into a well in Chachiro on Tuesday.Police said that Momal Menghwar in the limits of Chachro ended her life by jumping into a well. Local people took her body out from the well. Police said that Momal Menghwar committed suicide over differences with her husband Sanghram. The News
THE Lahore High Court on Monday freed an 80-year-old Amina Bibi detained by her relatives. Justice Syed Kazim Raza Shamsi issued this order on a petition moved by Amina’s son. He alleged that in order to grab her property some relatives had detained his mother. He said he had also moved some complaints to the […]
LARKANA/SUKKUR: Four persons, two men and two women, were killed in two different districts apparently for honour on Monday. A man and a married woman were shot dead on the pretext of ‘Karo-kari’ in Faqeer Muhammed Khoso village within the remit of the Qubo Saeed Khan police station, some 70 kilometres from here, on Monday. […]
By: Murtaza Talpur Gender discrimination in education sector in addition persists in Pakistan especially amongst the poorest households because of poverty and social factors To have an adequate appreciation of the far-reaching effects of disparities between women and men, we have to recognise the basic fact that gender inequality is not one affliction, but many […]
By: Samira Shackle Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old schoolgirl shot and wounded by the Taliban, has been discharged from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, where she was receiving treatment. Doctors say she is well enough to be treated as an outpatient for the next few weeks and has relocated to the temporary home in the […]
MULTAN / GUJRAT: Three women were shot on Sunday in two incidents. Two of them died and one was hospitalised in critical condition. In Multan, a woman and her daughter were shot allegedly by a man who had wanted to marry the girl. The woman died on the spot. The girl was taken to Nishtar […]
By: Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan, the two students who suffered injuries when Taliban attacked and wounded seriously Malala Yousufzai in October last year, are overwhelmed by the rapid recovery of the 15-year-old education activist and have wished her a happy New Year. Kainat, 15, a student of class 10th, said that […]
By: Abdul Razaque Channa What if you and I are uneducated, have never been to school, do not know how to send and receive text messages and are repeatedly called jahil (illiterate) and andha (blind)? Being illiterate may not kill a person but the feeling of being a jahil does, if not socially, then emotionally […]
Malala Yousufzai is out of hospital and back at her temporary English home with her parents and two brothers. The 15-year-old, who was shot in the head and neck in October 2012 by an armed militant determined to punish her for her campaign for education for girls, had battled hard for life in the initial […]
By: Ayesha Asghar We have heard all about how rape is used as weapon in mass-scale war. Several thousand women were brutally raped in the 1971 war in East Pakistan to silence all the voices that were being raised against the Government of Pakistan. Every year, Pakistanis wail about their prisoners of war and how […]
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