Month: May 2013

A rough deal for women

Holding separate meetings in Islamabad and Peshawar on Thursday, the National Commission on the Status of Women and some non-governmental rights groups expressed serious concern...

South Asia’s gender bias

South Asia has a women problem. Be it India with its spate of high-profile rape cases, Pakistan with its systematic disenfranchisement in several conservative regions...

First Pakistani woman scales Mount Everest

ISLAMABAD: The news about the first Pakistani woman summiting Mount Everest on Sunday morning spread like a wildfire. Text messages congratulating every Pakistani started doing...