Month: December 2013

Breastfeeding prevents 220,000 deaths: WHO

ISLAMABAD: World Health Organization (WHO) has said that globally, breastfeeding has the potential to prevent 220,000 deaths among children under five each year. According to...

Time to get married

KARACHI: It has become the norm that when a girl reaches her twenties, she is deemed ready to be married, or at least that is...

Man accused of rape granted bail

LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Nasir Javed on Friday granted bail to a man accused of ‘buying’ a married woman, raping her and forcibly...

Hard times for girls’ education

Children without proper schooling in Pakistan are in their thousands, in fact millions; the situation has become worse due to the absence of state school...