Month: February 2012

Two killed over Karo-Kari in Khairpur

SUKKUR: A man shot his sister dead over Karo-Kari in Khairpur on Saturday. According to the police, accused Zanwar, alias Dado, a resident of village...

Pro-women legislation

A THOMAS Reuters Foundation poll of gender specialists reported that Afghanistan in 2011 was the world’s most dangerous country in which to be a woman,...

Against the wind…

Let it be a day of celebration for the so-called ‘inferior sex’ for their success in parliament of a country where they have been denied...

Girls’ school blown up in DI Khan

PESHAWAR: Unidentified terrorists on Friday blew up the Government Girls Primary School, Kotla Saeedan, DI Khan, police said. According to details, terrorists had planted explosive...

Girls suffer as 50 schools closed in rural Peshawar

By: Mohammad Ashfaq PESHAWAR: Angered by closure of primary girls schools in Peshawar’s rural areas due to unavailability of teachers, the provincial assembly’s standing committee...