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KARACHI: A judicial magistrate recovered four women and two minors allegedly confined at the Iqbal Market police station after a raid on Saturday. The women identified as Gul Afshan, Darakshan, Nargis Khatoon and Shama Rubab, and minors, three-year old Ananta ...

KARACHI: Police on Sunday detained former husband of a woman who along with her eight-year-old daughter, her tenant and her minor son was found dead in their apartment off Abul Hasan Ispahani Road on Saturday. Malir SSP Dr Najeeb Khan ...

LAHORE: “As many as 500 women and girls are killed for ‘honour’ in Pakistan each year, making Pakistan one of the most dangerous countries for women,” said Dr Muazzam Nasrullah, a public health specialist teaching at Emory and West Virginia ...

By: SHAZIA HASAN KARACHI: “Pakistan has seen two big women’s movements. First after 1947 when the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA) came about to assist the women displaced as a result of partition and second in the 1980s when the ...

By: Anil Datta Karachi: The thing that counts most in the betterment of society and the development of the country is the emancipation of women and making them financially independent. These views were aired by Dr Ishrat Hussain, dean/director of ...