Tag: Women
New York women charged in bomb plot: reports
Two New York women who lived together have been charged with planning to build a bomb that they wanted to detonate in the United...
PM to ‘make it happen’ for women
PM reaffirms pledge to work for women’s rights in Pakistan in collaboration with international community
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reaffirmed his pledge for the...
In Algeria, women ‘imams’ battle Islamic radicalisation
Hundreds of female religious guides have been at the forefront of Algeria’s battle against Islamic radicalisation since the civil war that devastated the North...
Spain breaks up online network recruiting young women for IS
Spain claimed on Tuesday that it had broken up an online network which was allegedly recruiting young women to join Islamic State (IS) militants...
Shahbaz urges women to play role in national development
Punjab CM tells female MPAs of PML-N to contribute in war against terrorism
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said that the role of...
Sri Lanka women hold on for eight-run win
An unbeaten 40-ball 50 from Dilani Manodara powered Sri Lanka women to 151, and sent the team on their way towards an eight-run victory...
More women, minorities in US Congress than ever
The new 114th US Congress counts more minorities and women than ever, although lawmakers remain overwhelmingly white and male in the Republican-controlled House of...
How women cotton-pickers wage protest paid off
Azeema Khatoon, a mother of five, has spent most of her life labouring in sunbaked cotton fields for less than $2 a day.
Last year,...
Mentally ill Indian women ‘treated worse than animals’: HRW
Intellectually disabled women in India are routinely locked up in institutions where they suffer sexual or other abuse and are “treated worse than animals”,...
Afghan women excluded from peace talks with Taliban
In talks between the Taliban and the government, only one Afghan woman was present on two occasions, Oxfam said.
NA adopts bill allocating more seats for women in GCs
Bill introduced by PPP MNA proposes minimum allocation of 10% general seats for women and 33% quota of women in general councils
The National Assembly...
Women cricketers to get cash prizes for Asian Games win
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Tuesday hosted a reception in honour of Pakistan's women cricket team which won Asian Games Women Cricket final...
We’re here for a cause, not for fun
PTI’s women protesters rebuff parliamentarians’ taunts of obscenity
Say they do not need ‘certificate of piety’ from JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman
INGO country head says by...
Dozens of Yazidi women ‘sold into marriage’ by jihadists
NGO says some 300 Yazidi women were kidnapped and transported to Syria by jihadists
Several dozen Yazidi women kidnapped by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq...
Acid attacks on women cast pall of fear in Balochistan
A recent spate of acid attacks in Balochistan has sparked an impassioned debate about rising Islamisation that is forcing an increasing number of women...
Landlord crushes woman under tractor
GUJRANWALA
ONLINE
An influential landlord and his son crushed a woman under tractor over a farm dispute and set her house on fire in Kamonki, Gujranwala.
According...
Women with diabetes at higher heart disease risk: study
Women with diabetes are 44 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD) than men with diabetes, a large global study has revealed.
"Taken...