Tag: Women

Women can nurture, transform societies: IIUI seminar

Speakers at a seminar here Tuesday stressed the role of women in perspective with Islamic awakening, saying status of women in Islam was indisputably...

Pakistan can prosper with active participation of women

Mrs Sara Yousaf Naseem Khokhar, spouse of Mr Yousaf Naseem Khokhar, Chief Executive Officer of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) visited...

2 women killed suspiciously in Lahore

Two women, identified as 55-year-old Afzal Bibi and 21-year-old Nighat Bibi, were killed in Jhugyan Nigran area here on Sunday, media reported. According to police,...

Economic emancipation of women

Should a women work? This has been a topic of discourse ever since our society has evolved to become more secular and moderate in...

Three Zimbabwe women in court for sex attacks on men

Three Zimbabwean women have appeared in court charged with indecent assault for a spree of sex attacks on male hitchhikers and using their victims'...

Women’s cricket officials sacked

The Pakistan Cricket Board Women’s Wing sacked team coach Mansoor Rana on Thursday citing bad performance during the West Indies series and appointed Mohtashim...

Women more prone to mental illness

Women are more vulnerable to psychological disorders as compared to men due to poverty and increasing inflation in the country. Over 60 percent of...

Fizza Gilani calls for increased role of women in industrial growth

Goodwill ambassador for women’s rights and PM’s daughter Fizza Batool Gilani has said South Punjab Women Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SPWCCI) could play...

Afghan MP ‘critical’ on eighth day of hunger strike

An Afghan woman MP was in a critical condition, after entering the eighth day of a rare hunger strike to protest against her expulsion...

Chiniot Police torture women protesting relative’s death

Police on Saturday exhibited brazen cruelty by torturing women of a family that had lost a member to the firing of a constable, Nasrullah,...

Man burnt by lover, her husband, dies

A woman and her husband burnt alive a man who was allegedly her beau on Friday night who passed away on Saturday morning in...

Empowering women to change fate of fisherfolk

In the thickly populated coastal villages including Ibrahim Hyderi and Rerhi, most of the residents are living below the poverty lines and deprived of...

Female trio for Nobel Peace Prize

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian “peace warrior” Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize,...

Three women share Nobel Peace Prize

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee, and Yemen's Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize,...

‘KP women need education’

Women should make education their priority in order to play their role in the development of the society, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Advocate Meher...

Spending money after a break-up good for women

Getting dumped sucks—and it can be expensive. A new survey reveals just how much we spend on shopping, manicures and more when we’re heartbroken....

Afghan women’s rights ‘at risk’ ten years on: NGOs

Women's rights in Afghanistan risk being forgotten as international troops withdraw and the government struggles for a peace deal 10 years after the Taliban...