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That the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has won the NA-4 (Peshawar) by-election for a seat in the National Assembly is no surprise, but it is the results within the result that tell other stories. The election was generally peaceful but the turnout ...

ISLAMABAD: Narrowing gender gap still seems a pipedream when it comes to registration of women with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). This emerged when officials of the authority responded to questions raised by various lawmakers in the National Assembly. ...

Change has come to Saudi Arabia at last. King Salman of Saudi Arabia has decreed that women can drive. Many of us, especially those living in the kingdom and the Gulf, did not expect it to arrive it in our ...

LALAMUSA: As many as 50 widows and poor women of Gujrat tehsil were given 100 sheep and goats free of cost through a draw in a function here on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, Livestock Director General (Expansion) Dr Ghulam ...

For some reasons, mainly male chauvinism, the Women Reservation Bill has not been passed by parliament. It was introduced in the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1996 when the then prime minister, Deve Gowda, was in office. As ...