By: Beena Sarwar BOSTON: Several Pakistani professional and community organisations based in New England hosted an event on Saturday night titled “Celebrate Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai”. It was thanks to Malala that these organisations joined hands for the first time ...
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By: Nashmia Butt Recently, some Parisian women decided to take a stand against the sexual harassment they face when using the public transport service. They launched the ‘Take Back the Metro’ campaign and the aim behind this initiative is to ...
Read More »Couple among four killed over marriage issue
JARANWALA: Four people, including a couple, were killed over a marriage issue in Chak 63-RB on Sunday. Farzana Bibi, daughter of Shamir Ahmad, contracted love marriage with her relative Maqsood Ahmad of Chak 612/GB Tandlianwala about two months ago, which ...
Read More »Female patient alleges gang rape at hospital in Burewala
By: Tassur Subhani MULTAN: A female patient was allegedly gang raped at a hospital in Burewala by staffers on Wednesday night. According to media reports, the victim reached at the hospital to visit a doctor and was asked to wait ...
Read More »SHC chief justice calls for addressing gender issues
Karachi: The province’s top judge said on Tuesday that the longstanding gender subordination and discrimination issues had to be addressed and viewed from a proper prospective. Sindh High Court Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar was addressing the concluding session of a ...
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