Month: May 2010

WAF demands action: Wah rape

THE recent custodial rape of a 13-year-old girl by the Wah police has shocked the nation. The Women Action Forum, Karachi, would like to condemn...

Woman MNAs outperform male colleagues

By Khawar Ghumman Dr Fehmida Mirza, the elegant Speaker of our sanguine National Assembly, made the country’s woman parliamentarians immensely proud the other day when...

Honour killing and Islam

By Nilofar Ahmed THE feudal structure of our society follows its own barbaric rules in order to perpetrate the inhuman and unjust system for the...

The war on Baloch women

THIS is with reference to of the article ‘The war on Baloch women’ (May 26) by Rafia Zakria. In the article the writer has highlighted...

Roots of women’s woes

The reminder by civil society organisations to the government of its responsibility to implement the two new laws designed to deal with sexual harassment has...