Tag: women

It has never been easy to manage a demanding career while also prioritising self and family. And for many women, ...

Editors' Note: We are publishing this two-part series of a deeply personal and moving account of how scholar and former Ambassador ...

A few days ago, I got a recommendation from YouTube for a show called Mere Humsafar. From the promo itself, ...

The supporters of former PM Imran Khan have taken his constitutional removal from office very personally. It doesn’t matter if ...

It was Ramadan in the year 1841 and Abdullah Khan Achakzai was probably wondering what tribulations he had fallen under. ...

Kofi Anan, former General-Secretary of the United Nations, once commented that violence against women is the most shameful and pervasive ...

The second edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival will be held digitally on the 31st of March and the ...

The ethnic diversity and the peaceful coexistence of different communities is said to be a defining feature of the modern ...

Raza Rumi: Welcome to Think Fest Conversations, and it is a great pleasure and honour to be with Senator Sherry ...

Aurat March Lahore has filed a writ petition before the Lahore High Court (LHC), calling for women’s right to march ...

We all know about the great Mughal Empire that ruled over the Indian Subcontinent from 1526 AD to 1857 AD. ...

The story told here is without consideration of politics, bitterness or religious allegiances connected to the events that led to ...

Education is perceived to be a fundamental human right in the twenty first century but in war-torn countries like Afghanistan, ...

There had been a downpour that day in May: balmy Kabul weather. I had opened my windows and watched the ...

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Sharmila Faruqi lodged an official complaint with the the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s Cybercrime Wing ...

Even as the advisor to Chief Minister Sindh on Law Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui took to Twitter to announce that the ...

As Delhi and Mumbai police have begun investigations into the content found on the app "Bulli Bai" after complaints about ...

Khaled Hosseini, a famous Afghani novelist, migrated to the United States of America in 1980 after the Soviet military intervention. ...

A man who stands accused of making videos of women in Islamabad and harassing them has turned out to be ...

According to the Pakistan Economic Survey (2021), 24.3%, i.e. one in every four Pakistanis, lives below the national poverty line. ...

Since 2001, displacement in Pakistan began, due to the rise of armed religious militancy. The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially ...

Pakistan is a country where a song that makes no sense, or a video clip of an untoward incident goes ...

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

The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women has announced that the award for 2021 goes to writer Alia Ahmed ...

Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony Maulana Tahir Ashrafi has criticised advertisements which feature women “unnecessarily” in ...

The Taliban have today fired warning shots in the air to disperse a small protest for women's rights in Kabul, ...