Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan

By: Irfan Haider ISLAMABAD: Twenty-two-year-old Rabia Saeed was looking forward to being home as her father reached Islamabad to take her back after she spent 40 days in the sit-in of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT). A resident of Shorkot tehsil ...

By: Naeem Tahir What has been happening in Islamabad is unprecedented. Most noticeable is the strength and presence of women in this huge effort by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) to bring a real change in ...

THE last time women were occupying public space in the country’s capital, it was the spring of 2007. Then, a conflict brewed between the country’s justice system and the country’s rulers. The then chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar ...