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It is intriguing to notice how a group of women have come together in Swat, of all places, to form a female jirga to improve access to justice. Swat is the same place where the Taliban shot and wounded Malala ...

A son of landlord with his companions allegedly gang raped daughter of a labourer along with his companions and fled the scene leaving the girl in critical condition. According to mother of the victim girl, she along with her 16-year-old ...

ABBOTTABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Amna Sardar has expressed concern about the growing acid throwing incidents and stressed the need for appropriate legislation to curb this menace. Talking to reporters here Saturday, she termed the incidents of acid throwing one of the burning issues that needed immediate attention. The MPA added that women were the [...]

Recently, there has been some attention drawn to a long-standing issue that many women face in the workplace and at other institutions. The issue highlights the fact that the mainstream working society in Pakistan is still not accustomed to working with female colleagues. However, the issue is not just that men are estranged from the [...]

This is with reference to Sabina Khan’s piece “Women: Pakistan’s second class citizens” (July 31). It is very comforting to read such articles written increasingly by women, who want to defend their rights. The damage done to women’s rights has been caused not only by religious charities, as the writer has pointed out, but even [...]