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By: Babar Ayaz If today Gordon Brown, the US and UN support the women’s education cause in Pakistan and Afghanistan, should we stop supporting the right cause? If I am killed by a stray bullet in a gunfight between the security forces and terrorists or dacoits, as bad luck would have it I was at [...]

By: Zahra Sabri I wish we lived in a society where any attempt to critique Malala Yousufzai’s speech at the UN (and subsequent speeches) would not be so quickly construed as support for the Taliban. But this is understandable. We have lived for so long in a state of moral equivocation over the rise of [...]

By: Sabina Khan Women in Karak have been prohibited from leaving their homes without a mahram due to the reason that they spread vulgarity and distract men during the holy month. Perhaps, a better way of ensuring that these weak-willed men stay chaste would be for the primitives to blindfold themselves and stay in their [...]

GUJRANWALA: A man poisoned his wife to death on Tuesday for failing to give birth to a baby boy in Gujranwala, police say. The horrible incident took place in Farid Town area of Gujranwala. The accused, Muhammad Yousuf, wanted a son and was often seen fighting with his wife, Rifat. The couple had two daughters. [...]

By: Amna Iqbal This is “Ripley’s believe it or not”, the Pakistani version. A woman once physically attacked a man in a restaurant because he intruded her personal space. She had tried to make him back down but there was still a sense of injustice that spurred this violence because she wanted to drive home [...]