Tag: Girls

Villagers bar girls from going to ‘co-ed’ schools

Parents in four major villages of Gujrat district have stopped their daughters from going to schools against the government’s decision of merging primary schools...

D&SJ given 3 days to produce girl’s murder report

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed Rahim Yar Khan’s District and Sessions Judge (D&SJ) to send the police report, u/s 173 Cr PC,...

BA/BSc result out: girls take the lead again

Once again outclassing their male counterparts, girls secured the first five positions in Punjab University (PU)’s 2013 BA/Bsc examinations. PU Acting Vice Chancellor Prof...

Prize distribution ceremony at IIUI

The International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) organized the Prize Distribution Ceremony of Annual Sports 2013 at its girls campus. President IIUI Prof. Dr. Ahmad Yousif...

Two girls abducted from capital

Two young women were abducted from the federal capital in separate incidents, police reported on Wednesday. Only identified by her first name, Sidra went missing...

Govt girls school blasted in Bannu

Anti-literacy militants blew up a government run girls school with explosives in the wee hours of Friday but no causality was reported. According to...

Hekmatyar slams TTP for blocking girls’ education

Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar re-emphasised the lack of linkage between his group and the Pakistani Taliban, whom he condemned for blocking girls’ schooling. Hekmatyar, a...

Afghanistan mine kills 10 girls in Nangarhar

At least 10 young girls have been killed and two others injured in a landmine explosion in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. The girls were collecting...

Blast kills 10 girls in Afghanistan

At least 10 girls were killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in the east of Afghanistan on Monday, official said. Afghan police...

Pak, UN launch global ‘Malala’ war chest for girls’ education

President Asif Ali Zardari Monday announced $10 million for a global war chest to educate all girls by 2015 set up in the name...

Afghan girl’s beheading: Two arrested in Kunduz province

Afghan police have arrested two men accused of beheading a teenage girl with a knife in northern Kunduz province, officials say. Prior to the...

High school girls give peers cupcakes laced with urine

Two Connecticut high school students found themselves in hot water earlier this month after a “disgusting” prank they allegedly pulled on their schoolmates was...

Two girls shot dead in Okara over love marriage

A man along with another accused killed his two nieces over love marriage dispute and fled the scene here on Wednesday. According to details, deceased...

Thousands of girls named after Malala

Thousands of newborn girls during the last 10 days were named after Malala in Lahore and other parts of Punjab. According to an official...

Malala shooting ‘an attack on all Pakistani girls’: President Zardari

President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said the shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai by the Taliban was an attack on all girls in the...

Denying girls school entrenches poverty

Millions of girls worldwide are not going to school, an education gap that condemns them to lives of hardship and entrenches broader extreme poverty,...

CJP orders authorities to produce 13 ‘vani’ girls

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday held the first hearing of suo motu notice on the recent case of 13...