Month: February 2010

Mother of four, protector of millions

By Rabia Ali Today, she sits firmly in a neatly cuffed uniform, the very same uniform which caught her eye back in 1994 when she...

Adabiyat dedicated to Amrita Pritam

By Jonaid Iqbal ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) has devoted its latest issue of bi-annual Urdu magazine Adabiyat to the first Punjabi woman...

This woman scorned

Reem Wasay While they staged rallies to bring the women’s liberation movement to the forefront in the West, we were being silenced into submission, while...

Rise, Pakistani women

Ghazi Salahuddin How fast can a Pakistani woman run? Well, among other things, this mainly depends on whether she is allowed to take the field....

Women NGOs’ attitude

HATS off to Naseem Hameed for winning the women’s 100-metre race at the South Asian Games in Dhaka and bringing a gold medal for Pakistan....