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By: Sabina Khan The UAE’s fighter pilot Mariam al-Mansouri recently captured the world’s attention due to her role in launching air strikes on the IS. Mariam broke a barrier to become the first female fighter pilot in her home country ...

This is with reference to Sabina Khan’s piece “Women: Pakistan’s second class citizens” (July 31). It is very comforting to read such articles written increasingly by women, who want to defend their rights. The damage done to women’s rights has been caused not only by religious charities, as the writer has pointed out, but even [...]

By: Sabina Khan Women in Karak have been prohibited from leaving their homes without a mahram due to the reason that they spread vulgarity and distract men during the holy month. Perhaps, a better way of ensuring that these weak-willed men stay chaste would be for the primitives to blindfold themselves and stay in their [...]