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Tag: Council of Islamic Ideology

gang-rape case

Of violence, women and us — II

By: Navid Shahzad In a universal context, all violence is a means to assert power. In Pakistani and Indian cities, rapid urbanisation without gainful employment

Rape and conflict

The recently concluded summit on sexual violence in conflict-ridden areas in London may have been held with the best of intentions but any substantive impact

illiterate panchayat

The CII is at it again

The lengths to which Pakistan will go to tolerate the likes of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) are mindboggling indeed. After the initial verdict

CII endorses underage marriage

ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism from various quarters, including some of its own members, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), on Wednesday endorsed its earlier ruling that

A practice most foul

In what has become tragically recurrent, a five-year-old girl was married off to a 25-year-old man on the orders of the village panchayat. The father