Tag: abuse

In what seems like a page out of a dystopian novel, Pakistani women are no strangers to abuse and toxic ...

Zafar Iqbal, 62, strangled Naziat Khan, 38, with her own scarf in front of their three young daughters at her ...

The frequency and ferocity of these natural disasters has been increasing over the past years eventually resulting in widespread displacement ...

Somy Ali, a one-time girlfriend of Salman Khan, has accused the Bollywood superstar of burning her with cigarettes among other ...

In Pakistan, children are at risk of various forms and types of abuse, including child labour, corporal punishment, sexual abuse ...

Nighat Dad, lawyer and Executive Director of the Digital Rights Foundation compiled a thread detailing what domestic abuse victims could ...

For the past few days, the tweet of Ms. Imaan Mazari has been making rounds where she has posted a ...

A seventh-class student at a private college in Murree was allegedly gang-raped at gunpoint by four senior students in the ...

Feminism is neither an imperial constituency nor illusory cup of tea for any monopolising group in civil society. To me ...

In the post-Covid world, raising kids and parenting them has been the most difficult and exhausting task, especially when the ...

My biggest fear, apart from losing a loved one, is to end up in an abusive relationship. I understand that ...

On the night of May 24, an 18-year-old boy named Jazlan Faisal was shot dead in a private housing society ...

On a cloudy summer morning, passing through the densely populated streets of Hatirjheel, a lakefront area in the heart of ...

The dawn of globalisation and the subsequent interconnectivity in the aftermath of World War 2 has ushered in an era ...

International Women’s Day 2022 dawned with a global commitment to breaking bias, smashing stereotypes, rejecting inequality and eliminating discrimination. Nevertheless, ...

The ‘explosion’ that has taken place in Pakistani politics at the moment is in front of everyone. With the passage ...

News Analysis As dissident lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) continue to come out in the open, the party ...

Legal experts have welcomed the enactment of Protection Against Harassment of Women at the Workplace (Amendment) Act, 2022, as the ...

Recently it has been revealed that the Chairperson and the members of the National Commission on the Rights of the ...

Numbering more than 30,000 madrassahs, they often serve free education, food and sometimes shelter to around 4 million poor children ...

Police have arrested a suspected child molester after he was attacked by an angry mob of people which heard the ...

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, particularly the newly merged tribal districts (formerly FATA), have a very high rate of domestic violence in Pakistan. The ...

After India’s defeat by Pakistan in the T20 World Cup, Mohammed Shami, the only Muslim player in the Indian cricket ...