ATTOCK: A man killed his nephew and injured two women relatives over a cattle grazing dispute in Kani Village, police said. Naimatullah Khan, a resident of the village, reported to the police that Liaquat Hussain had shot at his own ...
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KARACHI: The Aurat Foundation has welcomed a Peshawar High Court (PHC) verdict ordering re-polling in several polling stations of two National Assembly constituencies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where women were barred from exercising their right of franchise under coercion through illegal ...
Read More »Raid: Police accused of arresting, torturing fugitive’s sister
By: Kashif Zafar BAHAWALPUR: Police raided the house of a wanted criminal on Monday and allegedly arrested his sister after he fled. Police are also accused of torturing her. The woman’s family staged a protest demonstration in front of Rahim ...
Read More »Constant abuse: Sisters accuse their father of rape
By: Owais Jafri MULTAN: In the tribal area of Dera Ghazi Khan, two women have accused their father of raping them for the last four years. Eighteen-year-old N* and 22-year-old S, claim that their father started sexually abusing them after ...
Read More »Call to strengthen women’s role in governance
By: FATIMA MUJTABA ISLAMABAD: “No nation can be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men,” former National Assembly speaker Fehmida Mirza quoted ...
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