Aurat March: A step towards a progressive society

Aurat March: A step towards a progressive society

March 7, 2021August 10, 2021 News DeskNews and Analysis

With the Aurat March in sight, the message it symbolises is hard to grasp in our social setting, and its acceptance would remain scant for the time being. For anyone who has read history critically, the reason for this reluctance…

Dr Ruth Pfau: Mother Teresa Of Pakistan

March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 News DeskArticles

Great people keep coming to this mortal universe. They live a life full of purposes. Dr Ruth is one of those brilliant minds & captivating sea-shores who lived for humanity. She was a medical doctor of leprosy. She moved from…

Jirga System and Pashtun Women

November 16, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Umar Mehsud Political, legal, and social exploitation of women is nothing that is unheard of, but in the Pashtun society, it is more rampant. Whether during the British colonial rule or after the Afghan war, women’s exploitation continued throughout. Social…

Never-ending Violence Against Women in Pakistan

September 20, 2020 News DeskEnglish

By Usama Malick It is heart-rending to see the newspapers these days emblazoned with the headlines describing the reprehensible & barbaric gang-rape of a woman who was on her way from Lahore to Gujranwala. There is no…

Women and the Independence Movement

August 18, 2020 News DeskEnglish

Maleeha Basharat The Islamabad police just arrested trans-activist Julie Khan. She is known for her viral social media series “The Naked Truth”. She often talks about the problems that transwomen face including sexual abuse, harassment, poverty. A month earlier, a…