Afghanistan has the dubious distinction of being named the world’s most dangerous country for women by an international poll of 213 gender experts from five continents. According to a survey conducted by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by the Thomson-Reuters Foundation, Afghanistan took the top spot in light of the nation’s dismal healthcare, brutal [...]
The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has nominated Kiran Ilyas Gouri to participate in Asian Football Confederation (AFC) ‘B’ Coaching Certificate course. She is the first women coach of Pakistan who is participating in AFC ‘B’ Coaching Course slated from July 4 to 23 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In a statement issued here on Tuesday President [...]
A Pakistani woman who was reportedly paraded naked through a village after her son was accused of sleeping with a married neighbor is speaking out about her horrifying ordeal. As the BBC is reporting, Shahnaz Bibi was at her home in the village of Neelor Bala, north of Islamabad, when four men, armed with pistols [...]
Walter Rodgers | The Christian Science Monitor | Jul 13, 2011 To push Pakistan toward more cooperation in fighting terrorists, the United States has suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid. Will it also have the spine to cut aid over Pakistan’s abhorrent treatment of women? The fact remains that Pakistan has long [...]
A Pakistani woman visiting the famous Niagara Falls on the northwestern corner of New York State was assaulted in what is seen here as “a troubling symptom” of increased anti-Muslim sentiment across the the United States, according to media reports on Saturday. The unnamed 26-year-old Pakistani victim, wearing a hijab, was on her way to [...]
As far back as she can remember Syeda Aafia Haider used to gaze at the planes that flew over her house, admiring their flight and wondering what kept them up. Little did she know that she would soon learn the inside-out of an aircraft, tweaking engines and fixing circuits. Aafia belongs to a conservative middle [...]
A majority of Pakistani people support women participating in sports, revealed a recent Gilani Poll conducted by Gallup Pakistan. In a survey, a nationally representative sample of men and women from across the country were asked the following question: “In your opinion should Pakistani women take part in sports or not?” According to the poll [...]
By Anees Jillani A FOREIGN journalist friend working in Pakistan was perplexed after visiting the family of Salmaan Taseer’s assassin near Islamabad. She was intrigued that the men from the assassin’s family while talking to her did not look at her even once. She is not the first westerner who has mentioned this, as many [...]
Mariana Baabar Ladies beware! If you have to visit the Nadra office in F-8 here to either renew your ID card, or have a duplicate made, tow along with you a male member of your family or his ID card otherwise you will be denied your legitimate rights as a citizen of Pakistan. On the [...]
