Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: In a most significant pro-women move in nearly four years of its life, the National Assembly unanimously passed on Thursday a government bill to create a powerful National Commission on the Status of Women as the fruit ...
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LAKKI MARWAT: Speakers at a seminar have called upon the government to ensure implementation on Prevention of Anti-Women Practices Act so as to protect the rights of women and eradicate anti women practices in the country. The seminar was arranged ...
Read More »Woman killed over Karo-Kari in Ghotki
SUKKUR: A man killed his wife over Karo-Kari in Ghotki on Sunday. According to the police, accused Nasrullah Soomro, resident of village Bahadur Soomro in the limits of Serhad police station, shot his wife Maryam dead, alleging her of maintaining ...
Read More »Arfa loses fight against epilepsy
LAHORE: Arfa Karim, the world`s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), breathed her last here on Saturday night at Combined Military Hospital, Lahore. She was 16. Her funeral prayers will be offered on Sunday at 10am at Cavalry Ground, Cantt. Her ...
Read More »Woman`s body parts found
KARACHI: Police found on Wednesday a woman`s decapitated body, cut up into many pieces, at a service lane on Shaheed-iMillat Road. The police said that some area residents informed them about a suspicious bag at a service lane close to ...
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