Gender Issues

Three ‘rapists’ arrested

SHEIKHUPURA: Nanrang Mandi police have arrested three people who allegedly raped five women in village Noon on Sunday. Police said eight people were involved in

Two jirgas decide fate of four girls

SHIKARPUR/SUKKUR: An illegal tribal court (jirga) on Sunday ordered a man to give in marriage his two minor sisters and a minor niece to the

Sindhi women in politics

Bina Shah A RECENT newspaper article casts light on a great problem women face in Sindh: the fact that traditional culture discourages women from entering

To be a woman in Pakistan

By Tazeen Javed Out of the four Pakistanis who made it to Foreign Policy’s influential Global Thinker’s List for 2012, three are women. Congratulations to