Month: September 2013

NA condemns child abuse, violence against women

By: Tanveer Ahmed ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Friday unanimously passed a resolution to condemn the sexual abuse of children, violence against women and girls, and...

Women forced to have unsafe abortions: study

KARACHI: Nearly 700,000 women in Pakistan last year went to health facilities for treatment of complications resulting from spontaneous or induced abortions using unsafe methods...

Two teenage girls killed, rape suspected

NOWSHERA VIRKAN: The bullet-riddled bodies of two teenage girls, suspected to be raped, were recovered on Thursday from the side of a nallah in Gujranwala....