Month: September 2011

Making the office a safer place

By PEER MUHAMAMD ISLAMABAD: Employees must realise that if the management of their organisation is not complying with anti-sexual harassment legislation, they have the right...

1.6m children, pregnant women hit by flood

By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: There are 1.36 million children and 240,000 pregnant women among over 8.8 million people affected by the recent rains and...

Early marriages

Sir: The tradition of getting a girl married early is one that has existed in our system for ages. When girls here cross their mid-teens,...

Women in crucial roles

By Arif Zaman When Sonia Gandhi delivered the Commonwealth Lecture this year, she remarked on the notable coincidence that the current Chair of the 54...