Acid throwing posted 89% increase in 2012
ISLAMABAD: Cases of Violence against Women (VAW) may still number in the thousands in Pakistan, but the figures reported in 2012 dropped by 12% from...
2 gang rape accused arrested
TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN: Police arrested two accused of gang-rape and produced them before the court. Accused Laiq Chandio and Hassan Chandio had kidnapped a 15-year-old...
Conference on ’empowering women’ at Karachi Press Club on January 24
Shehrbano Saiyid, an independent documentary film-maker & amateur mountain climber, will address a press conference on “empowering women to reach new heights” at the Karachi...
Making female education work
By: GULSHER PANHWER Female education is a vital plank for girls/women empowerment. Educational policies from the very inception of Pakistan were geared to focus on...
As elections draw closer, (Trans) gender equality is nowhere in sight
By: Rabia Ali KARACHI: The process of voter verification is in full swing in the city but one group – which had been led to...