Girls boycott exam over frisking by male staff
QUETTA: Girls appearing in MEd examination have announced that they will continue boycott of the papers to protest against frisking by male invigilators and called...
Sexist attitudes against women
By Ghausia Rashid Salam Discriminatory attitudes towards females begin at home, in the form of discrimination against the girl child. These are normalised cases of...
Transgender persons in jail
It is a crass abuse of power to ridicule someone for what they can’t control, to strip them of dignity because their bodies are ‘different’....
Rape, murder suspects pardoned
LARKANA: The mother of five-year-old Fozia aka Sindhu Soomro, who was strangled to death after criminal assault in Yar Mohammad Kalhoro Colony in December 2014,...
Punjab Assembly: Women’s Protection Bill withheld for consultation
By: Aroosa Shaukat LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly passed the Punjab Motor Vehicle Transaction Licensees Bill, 2015, and an amendment to the Provincial Motor Vehicles Bill,...