Women writers
IT is quite disturbing to note that in the Urdu textbook for Intermediate students in Karachi, published by the Sindh Textbook Board, there are no...
Healthcare remote for most Pakistani women
KARACHI: Razia was 15 years old, partially blind but happy when her parents married her off to a young labourer called Zahid, oblivious to the...
Gender equality before God
By Dr Riffat Hassan THE equality of man and woman in the sight of God is unequivocally affirmed by the Quran, which has assigned the...
A ray of hope for women
THE government has taken a commendable step in reconstituting the National Commission on the Status of Women and inducting a number of women activists into...
Women: the largest minority!
THE report in Dawn Metropolitan on March 9, ‘Struggle against patriarchal society to continueÂ’, by Sumera S. Naqvi begins with the statement : “Women, who...