Initiative helps flood-hit women fight poverty
By Malik Tahseen Raza MUZAFFARGARH: Kalsoom Mai, 40, lost her husband Ghulam Husain to the mighty Indus when the flood hit her village Sarkiwala in...
Nurses exposed to harassment as law remains unenforced
KARACHI: Despite the general perception that young women medical professionals or nurses are among the groups of professionals vulnerable to ‘workplace violence’, public and private...
The biggest hate crime of all
By: Reem Wasay Rape in Pakistan is now flamboyant; a typically male-celebrated rite of passage presided over by lawless jirgas that have ordained victims and...
Woman shot dead, husband injured
LARKANA: Armed men shot dead a woman in her house in Mirokhan on Friday while her husband was injured in another attack. The couple had...
Injustices to women
SOME 2,236 cases of women being kidnapped were reported in Pakistan during 2010, while the figure came down to 2,089 the following year according to...