Women’s participation in sports has a long history; a history evident by discrimination but also one tugged with major accomplishments by female athletes especially in Pakistan. Pakistani women in sports marked excellence in heaps. Whether …

Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said that women being an important segment of the society have to be empowered economically and socially to play their due role for the socio-economic development of the …

Mohammad Ali Jinnah said in Speech delivered at Islamia College for women March 25, 1940:
I have always maintained that no nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with …

The debate on gender discrimination in social spectrum of Pakistan is going for centuries. A wide believe is that woman is sub-ordinate to men particularly in male chauvinistic societies. However in wake of enlightened moderation …

New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today highlighted the vital contributions of rural women to development, while calling for their enjoyment of a full range of rights from property ownership and inheritance, to health and education.
“Rural …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan stands committed towards women’s emancipation through ensuring their legal, economic, political and social empowerment.“Our government fully acknowledges the fact that the women in Pakistan …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution against ban on dowry in the province. Awami National Party’s woman MPA Tabasum Shams tabled the resolution when the session began with Pakistan Peoples Party …

The debate on the position of women in social spectrum has been going on since centuries. It has assumed somewhat alarming proportions in certain matters. There may have been problems but at the same time …

Women has been given dignified position in Islam, it has been said in Holy Book that women shall have rights similar to the rights against them. The debate on the position of women in social …

ISLAMABAD: According to a Gilani Research Foundation survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, majority of the Pakistanis believe women to be good drivers, as 45% of the respondents claimed that women drive properly. It is …