Lady health worker kidnapped and shot dead
By Riaz Ahmad SWABI/PESHAWAR: A 45-year-old lady health worker (LHW) associated with polio campaigns was kidnapped and then shot dead in the early hours of...
Advocate, lobbyist, feminist or what? As memory serves
By: Shagufta Alizai When I shifted to Islamabad with my husband and two boys in the winter of 1979, I never did fathom, that my...
SHC grants pre-arrest bail to two more suspects
By: TAHIR SIDDIQUI KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday granted protective bail to two more accused persons in the Shikarpur jirga case. The seven...
The environment of rape
By: FE’REEHA IDREES A few years back, Pakistan’s former President Musharraf embroiled in an unprecedented controversy when he made an infamous statement on the prevalence...
Kidnapped girl found injured
RAWALPINDI: A thirteen-year-old girl was kidnapped from New Amarpura and, later, found semi-conscious with a fractured skull in a nearby ground, on Sunday morning, the...