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Rape has risen up the national news agenda, though whether the rise will lead to a change in the attitudes that underpin the desire to commit rape is doubtful at best. Not only has rape risen in terms of public ...

Karachi: Karo-Kari claimed the life of a girl in Sukkur and Khairpur on Saturday. Police said in Majhand a man Ghulam Mustafa Khoso axed to kill his sister Bashiran on the charge of having illicit relations with a youth. Police ...

GUJRANWALA: A teenaged girl was gang-raped allegedly by two people, while a local court ordered her medical examination. The girl appeared in the court of Civil Judge Nadia Mushtaq and said two men caught her when she was on her ...

ISLAMABAD: Representatives from more than 100 civil society organisations from all over the country on Friday expressed their resolve to work together for women rights. The declaration was made at an event organised by the Aurat Foundation’s (AF) Gender Equity ...

Karachi: Hundreds of schoolchildren gathered outside the Karachi Press Club on Friday to protest against the growing cases of child rapes. They demanded that the perpetrators of this horrific crime be hanged. The protest was organised by the Private School ...