Month: March 2014

Rape victim who set herself ablaze dies

MUZAFFARGARH: A girl, who set herself ablaze in in Bet Mir Hazar area in protest against a police report which helped her alleged rapist obtain...

Child brides, child grooms

The laws we currently live under bar the marriage of girls under 16 years of age and boys under 18. But such marriages take place...

MPA’s women plight claim stuns PA

LAHORE: PML-N MPA Jamal Leghari stunned the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday by declaring that 20 women abducted from all over the province were being kept...

Law on domestic violence stressed

LAHORE: Pakistan needs law on domestic violence as majority of crime against women are of domestic nature but they are not reported due our weak...

Police gang up to cash in on gang rape

LAHORE: Police Wednesday detained seven people at a private lockup for gang-raping a 20-year-old woman near Liberty Market. Initial investigations revealed that seven people gang-raped...