Women’s rights activist murdered
, by TARIQ Farooq
Women’s rights activist murdered
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, by Joint Action Committee for People’s Rights [Lahore, Pakistan]
Once again, a Pakistani woman has been subjected to rape and torture. Once again attempts are being made to spare the real culprits. Once again, a woman, traumatized, her life endangered may be forced to leave her country. The woman is Dr. Shazia Khalid.
The Joint Action Committee is deeply (...)
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, by McCombes Alan
Arshad Khan is an educated man with a B.Sc. in botany and zoology. But out to feed his young family in Rawalpindi he now drives a taxi. On a long journey down into the Northwest Frontier he points out geographical, cultural and historical landmarks. He also explains his support for an Islamic (...)
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, by RIZVI Majida, ZUBERI Danish
Will the NCSW’s latest recommendation to repeal the Hudood Ordinances finally put an end to the dreaded law?
Interview - Justice (retd.) Majida Rizvi
The Hudood Ordinances were promulgated in 1979 by Zia-ul-Haq in his drive towards Islamisation. The laws came into focus in the early ’80s (...)
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, by ALAVI Hamza
Religious fundamentalism has become a powerful and dangerous force in Pakistan, due mainly to the opportunism of successive political leadership that has pandered to it. Militant sectarian religious groups and parties, led by half-educated and bigoted mullahs, many of them armed to the teeth, (...)
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, by SULEHRIA Farooq
CONTENTS Imperialism and fundamentalism In Pakistan Social base Divisions among fundamentalist parties Immediate perspective Alliances
Pakistan is situated in a region where fundamentalism has been posed, of late, as one of the most threatening questions. The process initiated by the (...)
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, by ALAVI Hamza
The decade of the 1980s has truly been a decade of the women of Pakistan. A powerful women’s movement made a dramatic impact on Pakistan’s political scene. The concrete achievements of the women’s movement in its struggle against policies of General Zia’s military regime which were directed (...)
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, by Correspondent(s)
PESHAWAR: Although politicians who contested by-polls in PK-95, Lower Dir-II earlier this month may tell a different story, women voters have confirmed they were not allowed to vote during the elections.
Around 12 women from the constituency approached Peshawar High Court on Monday, through (...)
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, by EBRAHIM Zofeen T.
In an unprecedented move by the state, the FIR registered against the killers of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been tweaked to include Sections 311 and 305 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) thereby making the offence unpardonable.
Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, was (...)
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