Karachi: Around 95 percent of the educated women in Pakistan were unaware of their business abilities and entrepreneurial skills, which is not only hurting their own socioeconomic status, but also affecting the entire national economy too. This was the notion ...
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ISLAMABAD: People from all walks of life on Thursday highlighted the challenges faced by working women in different sectors of the society organised by the by AASS Foundation. Speaking at the seminar, “Challenges to working Women in Pakistan,” Nasreen Azhar ...
Read More »Malala Fund purchases land for girls college
SHANGLA: The Malala Fund has purchased 20 kanals of land to set up a girls college in Barkana, which is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai’s native village in Shangla. A meeting was held on Sunday at a school in ...
Read More »SHC upholds girls’ will in forced marriage case
By Z Ali HYDERABAD: The controversy surrounding the forced conversion and subsequent marriages of two underage Hindu girls may remain a mystery. Several contradictions in the claims and counter-claims surfaced as the case was being heard at the Sindh High ...
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By: Anum Afzal RAWALPINDI: I would like to raise an important issue through your newspaper which has long been troubling working women. About 80 per cent of working and university-going women use public transport in Rawalpindi on a daily basis. ...
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