Tag: Women

Retracting the proposal submitted in 2009 which suggested an addition of one more reserved seat for women in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), the Election...

Despite being equipped with separate ladies’ compartments, travelling on public transport buses has become a nightmare for women due to overloading and harassment issues,...

A seminar on “Promoting Induction of Women in Police” was held at the Hameed Nizami conference hall of Institute of Communication Studies on Thursday....

Dr Marilyn Wyatt, wife of the US Ambassador in Pakistan, said on Monday that the US Embassy would do all it can to promote...

The government has ratified innovative worker-friendly laws in the country, enabling the employees to take their disputes to labour courts, Labour Appellate Tribunal and...

ISLAMABAD - Women shall be given sufficient representation in decision-making processes on climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies as no national or international policy framework on climate change addresses gender issue. The experts on environment and other speakers stressed this while discussing absence of gender perspective in policy framework on climate change in Pakistan here a seminar "Climate Change and Gender: Prospects and Challenges" that was organized by

LAHORE - Women who did not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamist extremists intent on imposing Sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed on Sunday, according to the Daily Mail, a British newspaper.
The newspaper said other targets of the "Talibanesque thugs," being investigated by the police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, included homosexuals, and stickers had been plastered on public walls stating: "Gay free zone. Verily Allah

SANAA - Yemeni women protested in Sanaa and other cities against President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday, a day after he called for an end to men and women joining together in anti-regime protests.
"Sit-in, sit-in, until the regime falls," chanted about 1,000 black-clad women who marched from the square at Sanaa University -- the epicentre of demonstrations in the capital -- to the prosecutor's office. They marched to lodge a complaint against Saleh, who has since January faced

LAHORE - The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) women's wing demonstrated against the ban on wearing hijab in France outside Lahore Press Club on Thursday. JI Women and Family Commission President Samyia Rahel Qazi, Rabyya Tariq, Gulfreen Nawaz, and Shaheena Tariq led the protest. Dozens of veiled women from all walks of life including professionals, housewives and students participated in the protest.
Women carrying JI flags chanted slogans and brandished placards saying "Hijab is our

ISLAMABAD - Stung by fresh US criticism of its ability to defeat the Taliban, Pakistan is turning to women in a latest bid to quell the terror threat and reduce poverty.
The government's Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is designating $750 million, nearly half from US coffers, to create jobs and alleviate poverty by providing women with funds for food, health and training in the tribal belt. The region is the world's premier breeding ground for Taliban and al Qaeda

ISLAMABAD - Stung by fresh US criticism of its ability to defeat the Taliban on the Afghan border, Pakistan is turning to women in its latest bid to quell the terror threat and reduce poverty.
The government's Benazir Income Support Programme is designating $750 million, nearly half from US coffers, to create jobs and alleviate poverty by providing women with funds for food, health and training in the tribal belt.
The region is believed to be the world's premier breeding

LAHORE - Fourteen young women referees took part in the PFF Women Referee Consolidating Course at FIFA House, Lahore, organised by PFF, as instructors Salah Uddin Awan and Arif Siddiqui helped run through the rules of the game as well as the stringent guidelines the officials need to follow. The course will run until April 15. The second day included nine hours of intensive sessions.
The referees expressed their enthusiasm and hope for the development of soccer in Pakistan. PFF

KARACHI - Hundreds of home-based women workers and civil society members on Monday demanded ratification of the ILO Home Workers Convention C-177. In the national convention of Home-Based Women Workers, they demanded introduction of laws as well as ratification of the international law so that they could have legal protection.
The convention was arranged by the Home-Based Women Workers Federation of Pakistan in collaboration with the Labour Education Foundation, HomeNet-Pakistan

PARIS - Paris police on Monday arrested two veiled women and several other people protesting in front of Notre Dame cathedral against France's new ban on wearing full-face veils in public.
An AFP journalist at the scene said the arrests came after police moved in to break up the protest which had not been authorised.
On Saturday police arrested 59 people, including 19 veiled women, who turned up for a banned protest in Paris against the draconian new law, the first of its

SIALKOT - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday said the government was taking effective steps for the women development and economic empowerment.
Addressing a gathering of women at Bahadurpur near Head Marala, she said they should work shoulder to shoulder with men as any progress without their involvement in national mainstream was impossible. The government, in line with the mission of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto vision, was striving

LAHORE - South Asia Partnership (SAP) concluded its two-day national workshop on Friday, which was based on their project 'Engendering Democratic Governance in South Asia'. The rationale behind the workshop was to stress more women participation in government to form a stronger and more diverse democracy. Several experts spoke about the issue, giving suggestions, opinions, and feedback along with interaction with other members of the workshop. Afterwards a joint declaration was

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Thursday concluded its ongoing 23rd session and parliamentary year, as privilege motions were moved by members of the provincial assembly (MPA) against their female colleagues. All the three privilege motions were moved by treasury members against opposition MPAs including Samina Khawar Hayat of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Azma Zahid Bokhari of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). The movers were Sheikh Allauddin of the newly-formed