Call for strategy to check violence against women
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Friday asked the policy-making institutions and political circles for preparing strategy to control violence against women. The seminar was...
Nurse found strangled in hospital staff colony
By Imran Ayub KARACHI: A senior nurse was found strangled in her staff colony apartment of the Kulsum Bai Valika Social Security Hospital in SITE...
Working women ultimate victim of militancy in Frontier
PESHAWAR: Participants of a seminar on Friday stated that militancy in the NWFP and Fata had increased intolerance in society which had badly affected the...
Honour killing: man gets death
TOBA TEK SINGH: Additional District and Sessions Judge Tanweer Mustafa Safoot on Friday handed down death sentence and Rs100,000 fine to an accused in an...
Advocating women’s rights
By Asghar Ali Engineer IT is generally thought that the movement for women’s rights began with western-educated people in the 19th century. But very few...