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The Women’s Media Forum Pakistan (WMFP) was launched on Wednesday to take forward grassroots work on gender equity, labor rights and journalists’ safety, with a cohort of highly talented and dynamic women journalists from across the country. The WMFP aims ...

LAHORE: The Punjab Prisons Department has decided to establish three new jails specified for women in the province. There currently is only one women’s jail in Punjab, situated in Multan. It has an authorized capacity to host 166 female prisoners. ...

BAJAUR: There is only one girls’ college for a large population of Bajaur tribal district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), badly impacting the girls education as the college is centrally located in Khar, the district headquarters, and could not accessed by students ...

Islamabad: The Margalla police station reunited a missing girl with her parents, the police spokesman said. A citizen Awais Ali submitted an application at Margalla police station that his daughter, namely Tahreen had been missing and could not be traced ...

DADU: A female nursing student at Peoples’ University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women in Nawabshah, who had accused university officials of attempting to beat her to death on her refusal to bow to their “unethical” demands on Feb ...