Keeping the hope alive
KARACHI: If it was some other female who would have been drugged and assaulted, banished by her village as a dishonoured woman, and lost her...
Long way to empowerment: Is gender inequality a class issue?
By: Andaleeb Rizvi Patriarchy, social stigma attached with being a female and lack of reproductive rights combined with an excessively volatile religious society are some...
Society forces mothers to abandon, kill babies
By: Fawad Hasan KARACHI: When Sumaira* came to know about the abnormality of the child she was carrying in her cradle, she immediately opted for...
Landowner rapes servant’s wife for 12 days
TOBA TEK SINGH: A landowner raped the wife of his servant for 12 days here. Tasleem Bibi reported to Sadr police that landowner Khursheed Alam...
Rape and speech
By: Hafsa Khawaja Using rape as an adjective in supposed humour is nothing less than an acceptance and approval for rape itself, for what is...