Gender Issues

Three arrested for child marriage

By Khurram ShehZad FAISALABAD: Three men were arrested by Saddar police from Jaranwala on Wednesday night over a 9-year-old girl’s marriage to a 40-year-old man.

Gilani wants credible data on women

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the Population Census Organisation to apply improved methodology for the upcoming population and housing census to ascertain

Only girls` college in Orakzai blown up

ORAKZAI: The lone girls’ college in Orakzai tribal region was blown up on Thursday, sources said. Six rooms and a computer lab were destroyed when

Nine of a family killed over `honour`

MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Unidentified people killed nine members of a family allegedly to exact revenge of a domestic dispute in Basti Makhdoom, some 50 kilometres away