Month: November 2011

12m home-based workers in country

Karachi: There are about 12 million home-based workers in the country and 70 percent of them are women. This was stated by the Sindh Labour...

Young girl saved from forcible marriage

MIRPURKHAS: Police have foiled an attempt to forcibly marry a 17- year-old girl to a 50-year-old man in Ismail Kumbhar village, Sindhri taluka, late on...

Attack on girls’ school kills policeman

School was closed at the time of the attack; five civili­ans injure­d. PESHAWAR: A bomb attack on a girls’ school in Mardan on Tuesday killed...