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Islamabad: National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) on Wednesday urged the government to provide protection and security to the women at their workplace. In a press statement issued by the Commission, the NCSW condemned recent incident of shooting ...

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly passed the Acid and Burn Crime Bill, 2017 and seven other private members and two government bills on Tuesday which probably is the last private members day if the House is prorogued after passage of the ...

KARACHI: Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) released a report on Friday suggesting that as many as 20,700 women of South Karachi District are out of voters’ lists, mainly because they have not issued computerised national identity cards (CNICs). This was expressed ...

KARACHI: The joint opposition once against protested on Tuesday inside the Sindh Assembly when the government opposed taking up an amendment to the Hindu Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2018, seeking to allow Hindu widows to remarry of their own will. The ...

ISLAMABAD: There is no other option for women but to stand against subjugation, societal taboos, customary practices and all sorts of discrimination and empower themselves. These were the views of speakers at a seminar on “Recognising the struggle of women ...