Women as chattel
October 10, 2012
LAST year, a bill was passed that outlaws, among other practices that exploit women, offering the latter in marriage to settle disputes. But the emergence
Gender Issues
Gender uplift, juvenile protection: Fata gets funds but not laws
October 10, 2012
By: Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR: The government has allocated huge amount of funds for gender development and juvenile protection in the Annual Development Programme for Fata
14-year-old activist shot and critically wounded
October 10, 2012
By: Khalilur Rehman Bacha MINGORA: Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old Swat girl who championed the cause of girls’ education and dared to criticise Taliban’s attack on
Women’s polling: some suggestions
October 9, 2012
By: S. SAJJAD Q. ASHRAF THE Election Commission of Pakistan has finalised a draft bill suggesting re-polling at polling stations where less than 10 per
Women participation: a challenge for employment in Pakistan
October 8, 2012
While a colossal 77 percent of both men and women participate in the labour force in Vietnam, women participation rate in Pakistan is a skimpy
To preserve honour, uncle kills niece
October 8, 2012
By: Zahid Gishkori ISLAMABAD: There may be nothing honourable about cold-blooded murder but in some tribal pockets of southern Punjab, honour trumps life, unabashedly. A
Cleric among six held in Mansehra vani case
October 5, 2012
MANSEHRA: Police have arrested six persons, including a cleric and jirga members, for handing over a minor girl as vani to the rival party of
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