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HAFIZABAD- A young married girl was throttled to death by her father in village Chah Innu the other day. According to police source, Adeeba, daughter of Nasir Ali had married a young man Qamar Abbas, a resident of Nowshehra Virkan ...

By: HUMA YUSUF ON Friday evening, I emailed my editor to suggest I write a piece on the growing number of targeted attacks against women in Pakistan. The idea had been brewing for some time, but I was struggling to ...

By: NISAR AHMAD KHAN MANSEHRA: The Anti-Terrorism Court, Abbottabad, convicted the head of a seminary and his two accomplices on Thursday for subjecting a First Year girl to rape in a moving car, and sentenced two of them to 14 ...

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 ...

KARACHI: Executive Director Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) Karamat Ali said implementation of existing laws about women should be ensured rather than introducing new ones. Most of women in interior Sindh are facing domestic violence, he said ...