December 2, 2006

Murder of four women condemned

KARACHI: An NGO working for women’s rights condemned the murder of four women in the name of honour and demanded that the killers be arrested,

Musharraf signs women’s bill

ISLAMABAD: President Gen Pervez Musharraf signed into law the Protection of Women Bill, 2006, which amended the widely criticised Hudood laws in the teeth of

Warlords gang rape Badakhshan woman

QUETTA: A local commander and 11 of his men gang raped a 22-year-old woman in Shahre Buzurg district of the northeastern Badakhshan province on November