Women - 6

Pakistan is going gaga over a ten-year-old girl with a wholesome face. Last week, she was the recipient of Fatima Jinnah Medal, easily the youngest of the 60 women and four men, awarded for work that has impacted the status of women in Pakistan. Arfa is the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), which per [...]

The Pakistan chapter of the UK-based international NGO, Oxfam, has recently begun broadcasting a radio series aimed at raising public awareness of honour killings. Oxfam aims to reduce social acceptance of such killings through a six-year campaign aiming at significantly reducing the number of women killed under the banner of ‘honour’. The twenty-minute programme series, [...]

It will be a close encounter of a new kind. Women police officials will soon join their male colleagues at important intersections in the capital to deal with traffic problems faced by motorists. It will be the first ever experiment in the country to authorise women police officials to run the traffic rule show. When [...]

Louise Brown, a British academic who studies the sex trade in Asia, spent seven years, off and on, living in Heera Mandi. “The Dancing Girls of Lahore” is her report, both chilling and heart-warming, on a neighborhood where all the rules seem to be changing except the ones that keep Pakistani women in a state [...]

Graduate Mahwish Yousaf, whose family still has ties to the Punjab city of Lahore, became the first recipient of the S. L. Nanda Math and Science Scholarship in May. This award was established in memory of Sneh Nanda of Charleston, who was born in Lahore when it was part of the British ruled Indian subcontinent. [...]

Arfa, a promising software programmer from Faisalabad, Pakistan, is believed to be the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. The designation, given to outside experts who prove their ability to work with Microsoft technologies, has also been achieved by some teenagers. She made an impression through a combination of charm, flattery and boldness uncommon [...]

Zala Ejaz doesn’t write poems if her father gives an idea because she thinks that she has enough ideas of her own. The class five student at the Siddeeq Public School has so far written around 50 poems out of which the National Book Foundation published 35 in February. When Zala was eight-year-old, she was [...]

To acknowledge women working for peace 29 women from Pakistan have been nominated through a process for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005. Their nominations form part of 1,000 peace women jointly nominated from 150 countries and were officially handed over to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo in January early this year. One Thousand [...]

A Pakistani-origin woman in Toronto is representing her native country at an international pageant in Hangzhou, China, on July 2. Naomi Zaman, who was Miss Canada Pakistan 2005′s Miss Talent, is participating in Miss Tourism Queen International 2005 (MTQI). The event will have contestants from countries including Australia, England, Peru, South Africa and Italy. This [...]

While most college-bound students reach out to their university of choice, for Nomeeta Zaheer of Malden, the University of Massachusetts came to her – with a hefty cash prize in tow. “I got a call one day, and they told me that since I was the top-ranked student at Bunker Hill Community College, I was [...]