The Muslim Woman

At a certificate distribution ceremony for the graduates of Community Technology Learning Center (CTLC) organized by National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), Senator Ms Yasmin Shah tagged the women's rights law to be a great achievement as it is.

Senator Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, Secretary General of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Sindh, has accused the government for demolishing the MMA proposals and accused the President, General Musharraf, and his associates of blackmailing the public in the name...

Wajeha Al-Huwaider a Saudi-born writer and journalist is campaigning for women's rights in the male chauvinistic society of Saudi Arabia. In August 2003, the Saudi Interior Ministry from writing in the Saudi press banned Al-Huwaider. Since then,...

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain would be discussing a policy that would protect women's rights. Aziz said the government would remove all man made laws and practices militating against...

Minister for Women Development and Youth Affairs Sumaira Malik said on Sunday that the government is looking forward to meet out the issues of women belonging to minority groups. She passed on good wishes to the Christians community on Christmas and..

Pakistani women have shown to the world that they are not behind any one in nearly all walks of life. In November, Pakistani Military Academy Kakul, admitted women for the first time in history and recently, women cadets some with swords and others...

From now, onwards women in burqa would now have to reveal their face in order to disclose their identities at the UK airport. The immigration officials made such a move after it assumed that a suspected police killer might have escaped from the...

In order, too seek advice on family planning and other related issues, Muslim women in huge numbers are gathering to India's only all female hospital the Mission Hospital situated in the eastern city of Kolkata. The Conservative Muslim women are more.

NWFP Inspector General of Police Mohammad Raffat Pasha took cognizance of the cases of mistreatment of women in police stations and warned police officers of stern action under the Police Order if they violated the laws meant for protecting women....

Lately, the Women's Freedom Organization of Iraq has put forward an astounding report which projects the growing practice of public executions of women by Shiite militias. One such ghastly incident of lynching has come to the fore, where a young...