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RAWALPINDI: Speakers at a seminar here on Saturday asked women to play an active role in the development of the country. They also stressed joint efforts to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for the women. They said no society ...

By Shabbir Mir GILGIT: Sobia Moqaddam’s rise into the corridors of power might come as a surprise. The 33-year-old, who is the only minister to be appointed to Gilgit-Baltistan cabinet, belongs to a region where the literacy rate for women ...

LAHORE: While on one hand senior police officials have made a decision to increase the number of policewomen in the Punjab, no headway has been made in the case of a woman police official whose promotion has been approved by ...

Inspector General of Police Punjab Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera while addressing the first largest 7th passed out batch comprising 504 lady constables at Police Training College, Chung, Lahore, on Monday has said a large number of female officers are being recruited ...

LAHORE: Participants of a Sheikhatul Hadith Conference on Sunday agreed that women scholars could issue fatwas (religious decrees) on all matters. The conference organised by scholars from Barelvi school of thought demanded that the government make it punishable for a ...