AS women’s perceived role in Pakistani society changes — and it is changing, albeit slowly — it is the state’s task to keep up by

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By: Aisha Sarwari  A few years ago, I went to a restaurant where the waiter turned the deepest beetroot shade of red when I requested for

By: Nadia Agha Recently I visited an institute of radiotherapy in northern Sindh for organising an awareness-raising seminar on breast cancer. I was overwhelmed to

Save the Children recently published a ranking of 144 countries on the Girls’ Opportunity Index, which factored several categories in order to assign rank for