Tag: Women

KARACHI - The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Degree College for Women conferred degrees upon 349 students at its 11th convocation on Tuesday. University of Karachi Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui presided over the ceremony.
Sixteen students of the college were awarded degrees in MA (Economic), 166 received BCom degrees, 48 were given BSc degrees and 103 achieved BA degrees in humanities and liberal arts.
The KU vice chancellor in his address said that

LAHORE - Women judges should have a fixed ratio in all superior courts including the Lahore High Court (LHC) where all judges are men, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jahangir said on Tuesday. She was addressing a seminar at the Lahore High Court Bar Association's (LHCBA) Karachi Hall in connection with International Women's Day. LHC Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry and Supreme Court (SC) Justice Saqib Nisar were also present on the occasion. Speakers said

LAHORE - Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) women's league organized a seminar on the International Women's Day at the central secretariat of MQI on Monday. MQI women league secretary general advocate Sumaira Rafaqat said, "People with narrow mindset deprive women of their rights in the name of religion, which is violation of Islamic teachings." She said Islam bestowed respect and sanctity on the women in every relationship. She urged the women to play their due role in educational,

KASUR - Two women were electrocuted at village Jeve Wala Khooh in the Ganda Singhwala police precincts. Reportedly,Nadeem had protected his fields the help of electric wires.
On the day of the incident, Fatima and Nasreen were electrocuted when they went to the fields and accidentally touched the wires.
MAN GUNNED DOWN: A man was shot dead over a minor issue at Kotha Kalan village in the jurisdiction of Kanganpur police station. Reportedly, some members resorted to aerial

KARACHI - Pakistani women are talented and can play a major role in the socioeconomic development of the country, which is why the PPP government is committed towards empowering them through better education. PPP Women Wing Sindh Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui said this on Sunday before leaving for the US to attend the 'Year of Empowering Women and Girls through International Exchanges' programme to be held in Washington under the aegis of the State Department in connection

BENGHAZI - In a whirlpool of paint, Najah Kablan is busy making banners for the uprising against Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's four-decade rule in the traditionally conservative nation.
"I have come to make my contribution," said Kablan, a school inspector of English-language teaching who wears the veil like the majority of women in the overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim country.
Many women chip in to create artistic ammunition for the revolt against the Gaddafi regime without,

ISLAMABAD - Punjab stood first in violence against women in 2010 registering 5492 of the total 8000 incidents reported through out the Pakistan during the same year. This was revealed in a report highlighting the situation of violence against women in Pakistan in 2010 released by the Aurat Foundation and Violence against Women watch Group here on Thursday.
Titled the "3rd Annual Statistics of Violence against Women," the report splits offences reported from all over Pakistan and

LAHORE - Women doctors of the THQ Hospital Mozang went on a strike on Thursday over manhandling of a colleague by father of a patient and "rude" behaviour of the hospital medical superintendent (MS) after the incident. According to details, Dr Humaira was performing her duties two days ago when a pregnant woman reached the hospital with her father. Doctors alleged that the patient's father manhandled Humaira despite the fact that the delivery had taken place without any problem. They

LAHORE - Association of Women for Awareness and Motivation (AWAM) organised a three-day training of trainers titled 'Empowering the activists to defend women workers' rights'. As many as 35 Muslim and Christian participants including working women and representatives of civil society organizations actively participated in the training held at Dar-ul-Kalam.
The purpose of the training was to equip trainees in order to promote and protect human rights of working class. The

LAHORE - A consultation workshop to develop a gender strategy for police organizations in the country was held on Tuesday at the Avari Hotel with the involvement of senior management officials in the Punjab Police.
Approximately 30 police officers participated from all parts of Punjab of which 13 were women.
The consultation was facilitated by the Gender Responsive Policing Project (GRPP) - a joint venture of the National Police Bureau (NPB) and German Agency for

PESHAWAR - At least five people, including three women, were killed and 10 others injured when rockets fired by the Taliban hit a residential area in Hangu district on Tuesday.
The militants sheltering in the nearby mountainous region had intended to target the security forces' checkpost at Tora Ghundai in the Doaba area but the rockets missed the target and resulted in civilian casualties. According to police officials, three rockets landed in an unpopulated area whereas five

KARACHI - The PPP Women Wing Karachi Division held a meeting on Tuesday to repose confidence in the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the PPP, and Faryal Talpur, president of the PPP Women's Wing Pakistan. The meeting was held at the People's Secretariat and chaired by PPP Women Wing Sindh Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui.
It was attended by all PPP women wing information secretaries of Karachi's 18 towns.
The meeting

ROME - Thousands of women took to the streets of Italian cities Sunday calling for "dignity" and greater rights after a series of lurid prostitution scandals involving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "We are defending the dignity of women," read a placard held up at one of the rallies in Palermo, where thousands of women marched through the city. Thousands more rallied in Bari, Trieste and Venice -- with men also joining.
Solidarity protests by women abroad were also expected,

KHARTOUM - A group of women demonstrated in the Sudanese capital on Sunday to demand the release of dozens of protesters arrested last month, as three journalists were detained in a separate rally. Around 25 women, among them mothers of those still in custody since anti-government protests on January 30, stood waiting for hours outside the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) building.
Anti-riot police outnumbered the women, who carried pictures of their loved ones,

FAISALABAD - All Pakistan Women Association (APWA) Faisalabad Chapter hosted a seminar titled "Violence against Women" in coordination with a non governmental organisation (NGO) 'Women Crisis Centre' (WCC) to have an in-depth analysis of women's sufferings at the hands of their male counter parts.
The seminar held at the APWA building outside Karkhana Bazar was attended by the APWA executive board members, WCC members, women rights' campaigners and a large number of women from

LAHORE - The first female poet of Chitral Rahima Naz, who stepped in the field of poetry despite living in a conservative society, is optimistic to bring revolution in the district eradicating all frustration from the lives of women.
Rahima Naz was born in the paradise-like but backward area of upper Chitral Khot village (Tehsil Torkoh). Her father Haji Khan served in Pakistan Air Force (PAF). She passed her matriculation examination from Federal Government Public Girls High

FAISALABAD - A delegation of Child Rights Committee (CRC) visited the district jail to have a firsthand knowledge of the minor children being brought up in prison cells under the care of their mothers.
The CRC is a social welfare organisation working in coordination with Society for the Protection of Rights of Children (SPORC). The visit aimed at focusing on the wellbeing of the children who are living in jails just to stay in the loving laps of their mothers. The programme was