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KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar held on Friday to mark World Population Day urged the government to ban early marriage that they said was a major cause of rapid growth in population and high maternal mortality. The fast-growing population was ...

By: Rizwan Shehzad KARACHI: Most women would go for a divorce if they were fed up with their husbands but Amira Nasir allegedly shot her’s dead when she had had enough. After obtaining training in firearms from her cousin, Khurram, ...

KHAIRPUR: A man killed his wife when she refused to give him permission for the second marriage, near here on Sunday. According to details, accused Abdul Karim Rind gunned down his wife Hakimzadi at village Bugro in the jurisdiction of ...

ISLAMABAD – The first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest says she wants her achievement to stand as an inspiration to all the women of her troubled country that they can achieve their dreams. Samina Baig last month became the ...

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N has chosen well-qualified and highly educated females for nine additional reserved women seats that it got in the National Assembly., writes Tariq Butt. Begum Tehmina Daultana, who was defeated in the May elections from her traditional constituency ...