Tag: Women
Women prevented from voting during NA-25 DI Khan by-elections
Women voters were prevented from participating in the by-elections taking place in the Union Council Kari Shamuzi NA-25 on Wednesday, a private TV channel...
Three women killed in the name of honour
Three women were gunned down in the name of honour in Kohat’s Jowakai area on Wednesday.
According to sources, the accused, Jahangir alleged that his...
33 percent representation sought for women in local govts
The National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) Wednesday urged the government to ensure at least 33 percent reserved seats for women along...
Karak women facing difficulties shopping alone?
Whatever the claims of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government functionaries might be regarding ban on women’s visit and shopping in Karak Bazaar, media reports have revealed...
Taliban-style edict for women spreads alarm in Afghan district
One of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main religious advisers will not overturn a decree issued by clerics in the north reimposing Taliban-style curbs on...
Workplace Woes: Sexual Harassment and the Law
About five years ago, the Women Worker’s Help Line (WWHL) general secretary of the time, Bushra Khaliq, received an unexpected phone call. It was...
What a lesson!
A 25-year-old woman was, on Wednesday, ordered to teach school children as a punishment for taking admission in Holy Family Nursing School with a...
Center to decide on peace in KP; Dir women disenfranchised for...
In an interview with local media, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) finance minister-designate Sirajul Haq said that the restoring peace in KP was a major...
A secret to women’s longer life revealed
Why do women typically walk the Earth longer than men? According to a new Japanese study, the immune system is to thank—or blame, depending...
Women participate enthusiastically in elections
62 year old Kausar Parveen awoke at 5 am, completed her domestic chores and left her house at 7 am to vote for her...
Khan accepts defeat, thanks youth, women
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Sunday thanked the youth and women of Pakistan for their overwhelming response to the party in general elections...
Women in NWA, Lakki Marwat, Lower Dir deprived of right to...
Women were deprived of their right to vote during the May 11 general election in North Waziristan Agency, Lakki Marwat and Lower Dir, as...
GEM promotes gender inclusive elections in Pakistan
The Gender Concerns International’s Gender Election Monitoring (GEM) Mission has deployed 15 international and 50 national observers to ascertain women’s participation in the upcoming...
Mateela: the village where women will not vote
Mateela, a village near Islamabad, has a tradition of male-only voting. The women in this land of wheat and orange trees have never been...
42 women contesting polls on general seats in KP
A total of 42 women candidates are participating on 15 national and 27 provincial assembly seats of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas...
‘This is no way to treat women’
The National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) on Wednesday condemned the conduct of Returning Officers and District Returning Officers with the women...
Can female candidates equally win on general seats?
There were at least 60 women who contested in the 2008 general elections but only 13 of them could make their way to the...
