Tag: Female
305 women to contest election on general seats of NA
ISLAMABAD: As many as 305 female candidates will contest on general seats of National Assembly in the election scheduled to be held on July...
Online cabs: A boon for female drivers?
ISLAMABAD: Mother of three, 40-year old Rehana, had to continue her husband’s job of a cab driver as he got seriously ill and there...
Teachers’ protest for service regularisation enters 53rd day
Protesters say they have not been paid for nine months
ISLAMABAD: The female daily-wage teachers’ protest entered 53rd day on Thursday in the heart of...
Outrage at mutilation of Kurdish female fighter
AFRIN: Global condemnation has erupted after videos posted online revealed the mutilation of a body belonging to a female member of the Kurdish Women’s...
E-commerce boom in twin cities increasing interest in online shopping in...
ISLAMABAD: The trend of online shopping is gaining popularity in twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, as elsewhere in the country, due to a...
Behind enemy lines: Vietnam female spies who helped change war
HANOI: By day Nguyen Thi Hoa sold conical hats on the streets of Hue in southern Vietnam, at night she funnelled secrets to Communist...
Female journalists protest being ‘penned in’ during Pence Western Wall visit
JERUSALEM: Women journalists covering US Vice President Mike Pence's visit Tuesday to the Western Wall criticised what they called discrimination after being forced to...
Iranian female skydiver to break down stereotypes
TEHRAN: For Iranian parachuting enthusiast Bahareh Sassani, skydiving is "a way to prove that women are just as capable as men" – a small...
KMC performs special Hajj balloting for female employees
KARACHI: Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) announced on Monday to arrange special Hajj (Pilgrimage) balloting for its women employees so that the female staff could...
Over 12m eligible female voters may remain unable to cast vote...
ISLAMABAD: Due to National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA)’s inability to make Computerised National Identity Card (CNICs) in limited time, around 12 million women...
Romania likely to get its first Muslim, female prime minister
Romania’s Social Democrat Party (PSD) proposed a leftist woman from the country’s tiny Muslim minority as prime minister on Wednesday, a close associate of...
Court hands police official life sentence for raping daughter
A sessions court in Islamabad charged a police official with raping his daughter, handing him a life sentence and fining him Rs100,000 for the...
Female Muslim teacher among Brussels attacks victims
A Muslim teacher who had been working at an Islamic school was among the victims of brutal Brussels attacks a few days ago, Al...
Year Review: Pakistani Women in 2015
2015 has been quite the year for women in Pakistan. Gender equality took the main stage as one leading lady after the other wowed...
Female suicide bomber kills 12 in Nigeria mosque
A young female suicide bomber killed 12 worshippers when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a witness and a vigilante...
Female suicide bombers threaten Nigeria elections
As the West African country of Nigeria prepares for presidential and general elections Feb 14 and 28, it is emerging that female suicide bombers...
Female suicide bomber hits police station in Istanbul
A female suicide bomber blew herself up inside a police station in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district on Tuesday, killing one officer and wounding another,...
