Once again Pakistan has hit the headline and earned the bad repute, however, not for its increasing terrorist or political controversies this time, but for ever degrading condition of women in the nation, generally dominated by male.
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Two women were forced to part with their heads, you read it right, I’m talking about heads! They were beheaded after getting a tag of prostitution; Islamic militants in Pakistan reprimanded the Taliban- style justice to the vulnerable women....
For a change, Gen Pervez Musharraf did open his mouth against the US, where he hardly finds anything wrong! He said that rape and other kinds of violence against women are a global phenomenon and that it would be factually incorrect to single out...
Woman-bashing apart, a survey has sprung forth some figures that suggest that Pakistan gives a better deal to its women, at least in the political arena. In a surprising revelation, the Inter-Parliamentary Union has put forth some data that gives the...
The sport of soccer is not just about the competition, but also about realisation of the sense of freedom. Is it for this reason that Pakistani women have decided to go for their first national soccer championship, though under restricted conditions? The...
In Pakistan, a clear picture of violation of women rights, injustice and discrimination against women can be seen. A research conducted by the United Nations revealed that 50 percent of the women in Pakistan are physically assaulted and 90 percent are...
There is plethora of suicide attempts in Pakistan and in both the cases the reason has been the same- forced obedience.
A 2-year analysis of all such reports in a major newspaper in Pakistan showed 306 suicides reported from 35 cities. While, we are...
Enraged Islamist lawmakers have persuaded the Pakistan government to stop a theatre group staging a satirical play ‘Burqavaganza’; it’s about the burqa, the all-covering head-to-toe garment worn by conservative Muslim women.
In the play, young men...
A judicial body in Pakistan issued a fatwa against tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar for posing in an ‘obscene manner’ with French paraglider pilots, asserted a top cleric.
Authorities have summoned the government to reprimand and discharge her from...
Exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is all set to reiterate the Province in spite of probable arrest and also she doesn’t rule out running for the first woman of the country.
Pakistani courts under President Pervez Musharraf have...
In a gruesome incident in the tribal areas in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province a woman and two men were brutally stoned and shot to death.
Hundreds of tribesmen watched the executions carried out by the pro-Taliban Lashkar-i-Islam group on...
It seems that honor killing is a deep-seated tradition in Muslim countries. It is a kind of manacle that has been created by man to restrict the over all progress of women.
How often we have read the outcome of this weird custom, which has...
A Pakistani female provincial minister and supporter of President Pervez Musharraf have been shot dead by an assumed Islamic militant.
Zilla Huma Usman, 35, was working as a women's rights activist and had previously promoted a mini-marathon...
In order to safeguard working women’s right, the Parliamentarians Commission for Human Rights (PCHR) has decided to introduce a bill in the house. The proposed bill would target discrimination in wages, harassment at workplace, uncomfortable working...
The situation of women in Pakistan is uncertain today. If we look at the statistics, it seems that there is no end to incidents of violence against women.
Eighty per cent of the violence against women cases are pending in lower courts in Pakistan...
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Sharon Chadha has written for various publications, including RUSI Journal, the publication of the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest security and defense think tank in London.
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