Pakistan Gender News Voice of Gender News From Pakistan

FEW would argue that Pakistan’s societal realities are such that render it a deeply hostile place for women and children in particular. Nevertheless, slow though it may be, in terms of legislation some progress is being made to address this ...

Even if a woman survives being raped in Pakistan and makes the Herculean effort to get a case filed against her rapist and finally into court. She then faces further harassment at the hands of the legal profession as they ...

LARKANA: The judicial remand of a young suspect arrested along with his two alleged accomplices in a kidnapping, criminal assault and murder of a five-year-old girl was on Friday extended for another three days and he was sent to the ...

By Muhammad Sadaqat ABBOTABAD: In an unspeakable act of cruelty, a man allegedly chopped off the nose of his wife after he suspected she had illicit relations with a boy from a nearby village, police and family sources said on ...

LAHORE – Civil society has stressed upon the Punjab assembly for making stronger legislation to tackle the menace of child marriages. In a consultative meeting with media persons at a local hotel, it was the common consensus among the participants ...