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ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Tuesday criticised the vague policy of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) about the registration of orphans and children with unknown parentage. During a meeting, the Senate Special Committee on the Issue of Increasing ...

LAHORE- Hundreds of transgenders staged a protest demonstration in front of the assembly chambers on Saturday. They claimed that they were being harassed by the Social Welfare Department. Earlier, the protesters had gathered at Lahore Press Club. They took out ...

KARACHI: The fact that only 9.4 per cent of the women in Karachi known to be actively working shocked Sindh Women Development Department’s Mussarat Jabeen. She was speaking at a seminar that the Directorate of Women Development had organised on ...

ON March 31, in an unprecedented move two women — Badam Zari from Bajaur and Nusrat Begum from Lower Dir — filed nomination papers for the election. A former district vice president with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Nusrat Begum is the ...

UMERKOT: Speakers at a consultative workshop held here on Friday called for voters’ education and said that a majority of rural women are still without Computerised National Identity Cards because of a lack of awareness about its importance and access ...