Month: March 2008

Protecting women

ONE would have thought that the organisers of a recent workshop in Islamabad on domestic violence against women would be the National Commission on the...

Mazar rape accused remanded

KARACHI, March 22: A security officer of Mazar-i-Quaid was on Saturday remanded into police custody for three days over his alleged involvement in the gang-rape...

Adopting orphans termed noble cause

KARACHI, March 22: Sindh Minister for Women Development Nadira Panjwani has urged civil society to encourage the practice of adopting orphans and abandoned children. She...

Security at Quaid’s mausoleum

THIS refers to a report by S.Raza Hassan, ‘Woman says she was raped at mazar’ (March 19). An 18-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-rapped by...