By: Irfan Husain THE recent cold-blooded murder of six young women charity workers in Swabi confirms a change in Taliban tactics. While never hesitating in their slaughter of undefended civilians, they now see that killing women volunteers is not just easy, but attains multiple results. Many females in the NGO sector and government health programmes […]
By Kashif Zafar BAHAWALPUR: A nine-year-old girl was taken to hospital after she was raped by three men on Wednesday. Doctors treating her said that she was in a critical condition. The medico-legal report confirmed rape. Airport police have registered a case against seven people for kidnap and rape, five of them have been named […]
It takes real courage for a woman to be a teacher or a lady health worker or a polio vaccinator in Pakistan these days. The women who have chosen these professions have become the frontline troops in the endless battle against extremism and are taking casualties in increasing numbers. The last month has been particularly […]
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer Aslam Tareen on Wednesday told the Lahore High Court that missing Canadian Sikh woman Rajvindar Kaur Gill had been murdered and one of her killers was in police custody. He told the court that accused Shahzad had also confessed to the crime while main accused Shahid had fled to Germany. […]
The body of a 26-year-old woman was found near Jam Goth in Sachal after she had been gang-raped and shot dead. The body was spotted by a passer-by and later shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. An MLO said the woman was gang-raped before being murdered. The Sachal police identified the woman as Razia. She […]
By: MIAN DAWOOD LAHORE: Rajvindar Kaur Gill, a millionaire Sikh woman, who came to Pakistan from Canada to attend a diamond exhibition on August 25 and went missing the same day, was in continuous contact with an anchor associated with a private news channel of Pakistan, her family members disclosed. TV anchor Iqbal Hussain, however, […]
By: JAHANARA TARIQ I am deeply saddened by the death of the New Delhi gang rape victim. After battling for her life, she has gone, leaving behind a public deeply enraged by the rape and its consequences. There are calls for the death penalty and castration. However, nothing will change until we change the mentality […]
QUETTA: Unidentified armed men gunned down a woman in Musa Khel district, police said on Monday. Police said that unidentified gunman entered a house in Kangri and fired on a woman, killing her on the spot before fleeing. Police shifted the body to a nearby hospital for postmortem. Daily Times
By: Tazeen Javed The gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi and her subsequent death is a horrific reminder of how women are treated in this part of the world. Though the appalling incident happened in India, it made all the women in Pakistan empathise with their sisters in the neighbouring country because […]
Karachi: MQM Coordination Committee convenor Dr Farooq Sattar on Monday said his party strongly supported compilation of “sex desegregated employment data” to ascertain women’s contribution to the national economy. In a meeting with a delegation of women activists, headed by Aurat Foundation’s (AF) Regional Director, Mehnaz Rehman, at the party’s head office, he said his […]
BHAKKAR: A group discussion revealed that merger of Masjid Maktab schools with government schools arranged by Community Action Group (CAG) – a district based budget tracking forum- at the office of Awam Dost Foundation here the other day. The members of Community Action Groups reviewed districts education budget, especially with gender perspective. Community Action Group […]
Women living in comparatively more conservative parts of the country, such as Dir and parts of Mianwali district have routinely been denied the right to vote. Sad as it is, even the major mainstream parties, the PPP and the PML-N, have been colluding with local influentials to disenfranchise women. A few brave women, who came […]
By: Kashif Zafar RAHIM YAR KHAN: In the small hours of Saturday night, the family of 18-year-old Amna raised a hue and cry that the girl had died of a heart attack. The truth, however, was that Amna had been killed by her family members over a suspected ‘romantic liasion’. Four days ago, Amna was […]
By: Asna Ali A vicious gang rape case in New Delhi has brought the problem of sex crimes in India back into focus. The details of this incident are horrific. A 23-year-old woman was brutally attacked on a bus while travelling with a male friend. She was raped and beaten so badly that she couldn’t […]
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