Under the Taliban regime, women in Afghanistan have seen their rights and freedoms stripped away. The Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in 1996 and imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia law on the country. Women were not allowed to work or attend school, they were forced to wear the burqa and were not allowed...
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HR launches campaign for women property righs
ISLAMABAD, Friday, January 20, 2023: Even after the amendment of the Prevention of Anti Women Practices Act in 2011, which gives women equal rights in inheriting property, over 80 per cent of women report not receiving their legal share in inheritance. To raise voice against this injustice, the NCHR among other forms of legal redress,...
Karachi: Four people broke the minaret of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat and escaped
Karachi: Four people broke the minaret of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat and escaped According to the spokesperson of Ahmadiyya Jamaat, on the afternoon of January 18, three to four persons entered Ahmadiyya Jamaat’s place of worship in Martin Road, Karachi by placing a ladder and damaging the 2 minarets in front. Spokesman: The Ahmadiyya Jamaat has...
Former MP Mursal Nabizada and her guard were killed in an attack.
Mursal Nabizada, a member of parliament (MP) during the former republic regime, was killed by unidentified attackers in Kabul. Nabizada was shot dead on Saturday night, January 15, in her house in the Arzan Qimat neighbourhood of the 12th PD of Kabul city. The assailants took away her belongings, including jewellery. A Taliban spokesman in Kabul...
Gama is My Childhood Inspiration: Shayan Khan
As the news of making of feature film Gama, on the life and victories of the undefeated wrestler of Gama Pehlwan, The Great Gama or Rustam-e-Hind are taking hype, Shayan Khan, the producer of the film gets more enthusiastic for the project which is very dear and near to his heart. With the excitement the...
Done-Key’: A Key to Paradise or a Path to Hell
A young man from Pakistan’s Punjab region, in a YouTube video, happily provides guidance to the willing candidates for ‘done key’, a slang term for illegal migration in Pakistan to European countries, telling his viewers what excitement one feels when he enters Italy after one month of hardships and strenuous travelling through many countries. These...
Schools for All; A Journey of Inclusion to Exclusion
When a child is going to start school, one of the first things that parents inquire is which one school is best for their kid? And they have a lot of different options in their mind like affordability, syllabus, learning opportunities, school environment etc. Besides, it is totally different in the case of parents of...
I am Free
We are taught that freedom is like a gate. If I am free to enter through it, I am also equally free to leave through it .This is not a case where one way is good and it’s opposite is bad. Both directions are equal in value. Freedom is when we have the right of...
Life needs Recognition, Acceptance & festivity of differences
All young people deserve the opportunity to flourish in school academically, communally, and emotionally. Realistic life needs just Recognition, Acceptance & festivity of differences among people. Ableism is not a lesser form of discrimination. The harm of disability bias is continuously questioned, minimized or excluded. The devaluation of disability bias is itself ableism. It dehumanizes...
FEMINAZTION of POVERTY…
The feminization of poverty is used to refer to the increasing proportion of the nation’s poor who are females. Globally, about half of women in poverty age are in “transition”, coping with an economic crisis caused by the departure, disability, or death of a husband. The other half tend to be economically dependent either on...