Meraj Khan hails from a Pashtun family in Islamabad and is currently a student at a university in the federal capital, Islamabad. His family migrated to Islamabad after the law and order situation in the ...
Child marriage is a global issue and according to “Girls Not Brides”, 12 million girls are married before 18: that is 23 girls every minute, and nearly 1 every second. In Pakistan, child marriage is a ...
Ananke, a global digital development platform empowering women through awareness, advocacy and education, has announced the Women in Literature Festival 2021, planned to be held from March 30th – April 1st 2021. Across South Asia ...
45SharesThe case of poor Hindu women, working as sanitary workers in Sindh, deserves empathy. In a majority of cases they are the sole breadwinners of the family (while some of the husbands died during cleaning ...
You’re a student entering university. Growing up with sisters and friends, you know exactly what that entails: you’re expected to watch what you’re saying and maintain decorum at all cost. Whether you like it or ...
In the aftermath of the brutal gang-rape of a woman who was traveling on the Motorway in the Gujjarpura area of Punjab, the country-wide discussion on violence against women has gained yet more urgency. Calls ...
In 1896, an Islamic scholar presented Sir Syed Ahmad Khan the manuscript of a book that he had written. Days later, Sir Syed, who had by then established himself as one of South Asia’s most ...
The woman had almost lost her breathing. Her life at risk, crying for immediate help, she lay in a balcony on a dusty floor in front of the labour room of the Teaching Hospital of ...
Islamabad-based American blogger Cynthia Dawn Ritchie recently accused former interior minister Rehman Malik of raping her, and ex-prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and federal minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin of physically manhandling her in 2011. Following the ...
19SharesKhadija Siddiqui became a contemporary icon of Pakistan’s struggle for a society where survivors of violence are able to get justice via the judicial system. Together with lawyer Hassaan Niazi, she had taken up the ...
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