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THIS is apropos the hue and cry over the report about girls not being allowed to wear jeans and tights in the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). The report had been quite misleading. Let me start on from ...

Karachi: A young woman and a young man committed suicide over marriage issue on Sunday. Mehreen, 25, daughter of Shabeer, after quarrelling with her mother, locked herself in a room of her house (No. 1944) situated in Landhi 36-G and ...

KARACHI: Literary critics call Azra Abbas a leading Pakistani feminist poet. She, however, finds them all at a certain distance to the work she has produced during the last four decades. “My propensity towards standing up for the rights and ...

ISLAMABAD: International Rural Women Day will be observed on October 15 to highlight role of rural women in national development and raise their issues at national and international levels. The first International Day of Rural Women was observed on October ...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights have provided rehabilitation services to 7701 women victims of violence, floods and earthquake from 2011 to 2013 and have taken measures to protect their rights. It established 26 Shaheed Benazir Bhutto ...