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Cardiff resident Zakia Ahmed also received an MBE for work in her community. Over the last 30 years, she has set up the Pakistani Women’s Association, the Pakistan Educational and Cultural Association and the Asian Cultural Association. She has helped hundreds of women from ethnic minorities to improve their English, learn new skills, set up [...]

Doctors have found two pairs of scissors and a piece of paper in the lungs of a woman who claims she never underwent any surgery in her life. For the last 11 years, Sharifaan Bibi had been feeling as if something was eating into her lungs. She got treatment from several doctors but all went [...]

The Alliance Against Sexual Harassment (AASHA) is organising a working women’s assembly on Dec 22to highlight various problems being faced by women at workplaces. A large number of women rights activists, journalists, intellectuals, academicians and other opinion makers will also attend the daylong conference to be held at a local hotel. Sameena Pirzada, Sanya Saeed, [...]

The Chairman, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), has announced the opening of the women’s wing of cricket in Pakistan. It has been decided that Dr Mira Phailbus (Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Pride of Performance) is to be Chairperson Women’s Cricket, Mr Imtiaz Ahmad (former Pakistan captain) is to be Adviser Women’s Cricket and Mrs Shamsa Hashmi is to [...]

The United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) arranged a colourful prize distribution ceremony-cum-art exhibition titled ‘A girl in school is a girl with a future’ by government primary schoolgirls at Alhamra Cultural Complex on Saturday. The event not only aimed to encourage young school-going females but also to recognise their artwork – by giving space [...]

Following a rare initiative involving an international health agency, an airline and the administration of a hospital in Karachi, a kidney was flown in from Europe and transplanted into an 18-year-old Pakistani, Uzma, in the early hours of Sunday. A patient of end-stage renal disease, Uzma had been on dialysis for the last more than [...]

The curves of her body are softly delineated in black ink; her head rests on a knee as the detailed lines of her hair spill down a leg. Copper plating used for her lips and wide eyes shifts the viewers’ focus to her expression, confronting them with a conflicting starkness of emotion. Pakistan-born artist Zulfiqar [...]

Twenty-one year old Pakistani actress Meera is making her Bollywood debut in Soni Razdan ‘s suspense thriller Nazar . Meera is shooting for the film in Goa nowadays. Meera, fondly referred as ‘Madhuri Dixit of Pakistan’, has taken her first step into Hindi film industry. She frankly admits that she was always fond of Hindustani [...]

Begum Salma Ahmed’s own grit and her determination to get the women out of their shells, especially in the sub-continent, truly sets her apart from many women of her generation. Based in Karachi, Begum Salma Ahmed one of the first woman industrialists of Pakistan, she is the founder-president of Pakistan Association of Women Entrepreneurs (PAWE) [...]

Turtles have existed since the days of the dinasaurs, or some 100 million years. Now this endangered species is under threat from pollution, trawler nets and beach development. Here, Zofeen T Ebrahim tells the remarkable story of one woman’s effort in Karachi, Pakistan, to protect this age-old creature. Farida Asrar Ghauri, 51, a Project Officer [...]