Gender Issues

Woman comes under acid attack

OKARA: A man threw acid on a woman he was allegedly having an affair with sometime ago in Mansoorabad Colony on Saturday, say police officials.

French mother handed Pakistani daughter

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday hand over an 11-year-old girl to her French mother after recovering her from the Pakistani father’s illegal custody.

Body of newborn girl found

KARACHI: The body of a newborn baby girl was found on an empty plot in the Korangi area on Friday, according to the Chhipa Welfare

The menace of underage marriages

Hina Hafeezullah Ishaq There are already penal laws in place for giving a female in marriage as compensation and for exploitation and the like. In

Of Aisha’s age at marriage

Nilofar Ahmed IT is said that Hazrat Aisha was six years old when her nikah was performed with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Makkah, and nine

Body of ‘kari’ girl exhumed

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The body of a girl branded as kari and buried without offering proper funeral rites by her bother, was exhumed by police in