Month: September 2007

Acid attacker held after fortnight

MUZAFFARGARH, Sept 18: The Sanawan police arrested on Tuesday a man who threw acid on his wife on Sept 2. Muhammad Ajmal was wanted in...

Beheading of women in Bannu slammed

KARACHI, Sept 14: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), expressing concern over the beheading of two women in Bannu, has urged the authorities to...

Women’s police station in dire straits

KARACHI, Sept 14: Deprived of all basic amenities and severely lacking in facilities, the city’s only women’s police station belies all government claims of women’s...

Gender inequality in education

THE ILO’s finding that the illiteracy rate among adult Pakistani women is over 25 percentage points higher than that of the adult male population is...