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Provincial Ombudsman Punjab, Nabila Hakim Khan, on Thursday stressed the need of sensitizing women about their rights of property and inheritance saying that the Constitution guarantees equal rights to men and women. Speaking at a seminar titled “Women Property Rights ...

KARACHI: In a rare move, religious scholars have announced that they would stand by a female Christian official of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) who had been threatened by a Muslim colleague of implicating her in a false blasphemy case ...

TAXILA: Samina Tabassum, a Pakistani born Canadian writer, poet and travel autobiographer narrated excerpts from her book on Sunday about how rural women of Pakistan fight against all odds for their survival from denial of equal rights to an education, ...

LAHORE: A women’s board has been established in the Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) to solve the problems faced by the working women of Overseas Pakistanis. Coordinators and members have also been appointed in the Overseas Pakistanis Commission to help the ...

Working women and women with disabilities have demanded of the government to construct more public sector hostels in the federal capital to address their accommodation issues. Talking to APP, ShahidaZain, a working woman with disability, said that the majority of ...