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LAHORE: “As many as 500 women and girls are killed for ‘honour’ in Pakistan each year, making Pakistan one of the most dangerous countries for women,” said Dr Muazzam Nasrullah, a public health specialist teaching at Emory and West Virginia ...

By: SHAZIA HASAN KARACHI: “Pakistan has seen two big women’s movements. First after 1947 when the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA) came about to assist the women displaced as a result of partition and second in the 1980s when the ...

By: Anil Datta Karachi: The thing that counts most in the betterment of society and the development of the country is the emancipation of women and making them financially independent. These views were aired by Dr Ishrat Hussain, dean/director of ...

MIRPURKHAS: A youth was booked and arrested by the Town police on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to burn a teenage girl to death in Muzaffarabad Colony a day earlier. Police said that suspect Tarique Qureshi had proposed to the 16-year-old ...

By: Asma Ghani Islamabad: The anti-harassment law will do away with the critique of selective protection if the proposed amendments to the act get the parliament’s nod. A number of proposed amendments, including the power of suo moto and extension ...