Anti-honour killing project on the rocks after UK-funding ceases
The local advisory committee formed to continue running the anti-honour killing campaign, launched by the British Council in November 2004, has lost interest in the...
Mother of ‘raped’ girl seeks justice
MIANWALI, May 18: “If I don’t get justice, I will prefer to commit suicide along with my daughters than to live in disgrace,” said the...
Man kills wife, alleged paramour
A middle-aged man killed his wife and another person in Korangi using a brick on suspicion of illicit relations between the deceased in the wee...
‘Welfare centre’ for female prisoners
Sindh Minister for Human Rights, Nadia Gabol, has proposed the establishment of a ‘Women Welfare CentreÂ’ at the Central Prison Karachi (CPK) for the relief...
Women handicapped by commercialism
Aisha, 40, a poverty-stricken fisherwoman, is among many who are fighting inflation by adopting alternate means of earning. Sitting on a tattered mat in an...