The Baloch midwife
April 23, 2014
QUETTA: In the underdeveloped region of Kech in Balochistan where houses are made from mud and straw, a young woman in her 20s is saving
Gender Issues
Mothers are not child-bearing machines
April 9, 2014
By: Mansoor Qaisar It is a sad fact that Pakistan’s maternal and infant mortality rates are among the highest in South Asia. Pregnant women are
Deputy speaker reiterates Sindh’s demand to scrap CII
April 4, 2014
By: Azeem Samar Karachi: After unanimously adopting the resolution against the “anti-women” recommendations of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), the Sindh Assembly has suggested
12-year-old chairs jirga, issues decree
April 1, 2014
SUKKUR: A twelve-year-old boy, Fateh Mohammad Nandwani, on Monday chaired a tribal court (jirga) and passed a decree ordering a man to pay a fine
Sindh Assembly rejects CII’s ‘anti-women’ recommendations
April 1, 2014
KARACHI: Rejecting the recent ‘anti-women’ recommendations of the Council of Islamic Ideology regarding no minimum age requirement for marriage, against DNA test in rape cases,
Two girls from Charsadda abandoned by uncle in park
March 31, 2014
RAWALPINDI: Two girls from Charsadda were allegedly abandoned by their uncle who brought them to Rawalpindi on Friday and left them in the Ayub National
Focus on mother, child health: minister
March 17, 2014
LAHORE: PROVINCIAL Minister for Excise & Taxation and Finance Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has said that government is using all available resources to provide
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