Man sentenced to 10 years for raping teenager
KARACHI: A district and sessions court sentenced on Wednesday a man to 10 years in prison after convicting him of raping a teenage girl some...
Female entrepreneurs urge women to follow their passions
KARACHI: What you want to do defines you and the luckiest person is the one who loves his or her job and wants to come...
Child marriage termed denial of fundamental right
By Huma Choudhary ISLAMABAD: Over 40 per cent of girls in Pakistan are married before their 18th birthday and out of these, seven per cent...
Underage, under law: G-B lawmakers block bill to ban child marriages
By: Shabbir Mir GILGIT: Lawmakers in the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly have blocked a bill seeking a ban on child marriages, terming it un-Islamic. The bill,...
Humans of Peshawar: ‘They won’t even accept my dead body’
PESHAWAR: Few are willing to come to the aid of one of the most marginalised segments of society; people who identify themselves as transgender. However,...