Tag: Violence

A young Christian healthcare worker in Karachi, Sunita Munawar, has sustained serious skin burns after an acid attack on her. ...

The Rt. Rev. Nadeem Kamran, Bishop of Lahore, along with other Bishops – Bishop Alexander John Malik and Bishop Irfan ...

Classrooms rarely make the news in Pakistan for good reasons. This week, two incidents have caught the nation’s attention: the ...

Some inhabitants of the women’s refuge were rebellious teenagers, others claimed to be wives of the Taliban, but most had ...

Honour killings regretfully remain a fact all over the world. This is the case not only in third-world countries, but also ...

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

The United Nations defines violence against women and girls as “Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is ...

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women will mark the launch of the UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) ...

Introduction Rape has always been used as a weapon of war in major wars including World War 2. However, this ...

In times of humanitarian crises, gender issues have often gone unnoticed and ignored. Armed conflicts and natural disasters have profoundly ...

An eminent German philosopher, Emmanuel Kant, had defined enlightenment as 'The emergence of humanity from the self-imposed immaturity.' The enlightenment ...

The search for paradise on earth has always fired the imagination of scholars and dreamers, whether it is the Englishman ...

The COVID19 pandemic has claimed more than 3.95 million victims worldwide. Nowhere in sight is any kind of respite. With ...

In August, a total of 27 terror attacks were reported and twenty-four of them were committed from August 1 - ...

Thoha Khalsa would have been another nondescript albeit picturesque and peaceful village, if not for a blood-curdling event in 1947. ...

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

According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Pakistan is the fifth most dangerous country for journalists to practice their ...

Journalist Shahid Zehri, reporter for Metro One News television in the industrial city of Hub in Lasbela district of Baluchistan, ...

Veteran journalist Ayaz Amir's wife Samina Shah on Monday approached an Islamabad court for pre-arrest bail in connection with the ...

City Police Officer Omer Saeed Malik’s directive to prohibit torture in police custody can be welcomed amid the grim reality ...

A large-scale military operation Zarb-e-Azb was called off in 2017 once the army’s top brass found results of the operation ...

About 18 to 20 Ahmadi families used to live in my old neighborhood. Now, none of them are there as ...

Introduction Iss waqt yun lagta hai ke kuchh bhi nahi hai, mehtaab na sooraj, na andhera na sawera are some ...

When a video emerged on Twitter that featured a girl—a medical student from Faisalabad— being tortured, beaten, harassed and sexually ...

The Taliban have returned, the debate around Salman Rushdie’s work has returned and Nawaz Sharif is due to return. All ...

For dwellers of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi seeking respite from scorching heat, the road adjoining the GT ...