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...
‘Domestic Violence’ workshop: ‘Changes in laws, public mindset needed to stem domestic violence’
ISLAMABAD: Participants of a one-day workshop titled “Domestic Violence” called for a review of the laws to control violence against women including the Women Protection...
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...