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KARACHI: Cyber harassment, whether on or off campus, is as damaging to women as physical violence and abuse. To be disconnected from technology in the 21st century is akin to having your freedom disrupted as it hinders your right to ...

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 ...