Month: September 2013

Sexual harassment, a crime against society

By: Sameera Rashid The sexual harassment in South Asia arises from the value system of a patriarchal society that looks upon women as ‘sexual prize’,...

Once a ‘wife’ soon to be a husband

TOBA TEK SINGH: Some eight months ago, happily married Nagina Akram had not even imagined one day she would be running a tyre shop at...

13 girls among 16 injured in school blast

BANNU: Sixteen people, among them 13 students, were injured when a powerful bomb exploded outside a girls’ school in the busy trade centre area on...

Woman burnt alive

SUKKUR: A woman was burnt alive after a fire broke out at her house in Meero Khan on Thursday. Reports said that mother of three...