Tag: Women
Islamabad police establishes women and child protection centre
ISLAMABAD: Police have established women and child protection centre here at women police station to check incidents of violence against them.
Islamabad Inspector General of...
Women shine in Oscar 2018 nominations
LOS ANGELES: Sally Hawkins plays a mute cleaner with a passionate love life, Frances McDormand is a grieving woman in a fury about the...
Two women shot dead in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: Armed motorists gunned down two women over old enmity and sped the scene in the provincial capital on Friday.
Police said that the culprits...
Three women among four injured in Indian shelling
SIALKOT: Four persons including three women were injured seriously due to unprovoked and intensified mortar shelling by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) in Sialkot border...
Lebanon looking for more women in parliament elections
BEIRUT: Lebanon is campaigning to get at least five times more women elected to parliament this spring in its first vote in nearly 10...
Pope Francis urges end to violence against women
TRUJILLO: Pope Francis on Saturday urged Latin America's faithful to fight rampant violent crime against women including murder while holding mass in Trujillo.
"I wish...
Women protesters rise above party lines for justice for Zainab, Model...
PAT protesters say ready to change protest into a sit-in on one call of their leader
LAHORE: A large number of female workers belonging...
2 women kidnapped from Wah in different incidents
WAH CANTT: Two women were abducted in two different incidents in the bounds of the Wah Cantonment police station on Wednesday.
In the first incident, Mohammad...
Sri Lanka’s president overrules move to allow women to buy alcohol
A move to grant women in Sri Lanka the same rights as men to buy alcohol legally has been overruled by President Maithripala Sirisena,...
In a first, Saudi women attend football game
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia allowed women to enter a football stadium for the first time to watch a match Friday, as the ultra-conservative kingdom eases strict...
Saudi women attend football game for the first time
JEDDAH: For years Areej al-Ghamdi could only cheer her favourite football team from home, but everything changed on Friday when Saudi Arabia allowed women...
In rural Senegal, seeds of hope for working women
In Nganda, a rural community in remote Senegal close to the Gambian border, restaurant owner Aissatou Tisse is carving out a reputation for tasty...
Two women arrested for abducting baby from Karachi hospital
KARACHI: Police claimed to have recovered a newborn baby girl and arrested two women, allegedly involved in her kidnapping on Wednesday.
According to SSP South...
South Korea not seeking to renegotiate ‘comfort women’ deal with Japan:...
SEOUL: South Korea said on Tuesday it will not seek to renegotiate a 2015 deal with Japan aimed at resolving the sensitive issue of...
Muslim women can now travel for Hajj without male guardian: Modi
DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his government has removed the restriction on Muslim women from performing Hajj alone, following...
Indian Muslim women seek ban on polygamy, after triple talaq
NEW DELHI: A day after the Lok Sabha passed the contentious bill on instant triple talaq, the development was hailed by several Muslim women involved...
Senate body directs NCSW to establish free legal aid centre for...
ISLAMABAD: Senate Special Committee on Marginalized Segments of Society on Thursday directed National Commission on Status of Women (NCSW) to establish free legal aid...
