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Women in Pakistan are also journalists, filmmakers, lawyers, architects, entrepreneurs and activists who are making a determined effort to get their voices heard in the din of political talk. Perhaps they should have seen the group of women who crossed the border and came into the capital for just a holiday, leaving their husbands, children [...]

Designed to act as a catalyst to improve educational achievements amongst young people, especially those of Pakistani background, the posters portray women as positive role models. A collection of posters depicting Pakistani women in non-traditional female professions has gone on show at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. Launched on March 8, International Women’s Day, [...]

Pakistan’s leading Sufi singer Abida Parveen performs in city for first time 51-year-old songstress has no room for Sufi-addicted Bollywood producers right now. The 51-year-old singer is no stranger to Delhi, spreading a new light with her music at Humayun’s Tomb once the sun has set, but this is her first time in Mumbai. How [...]

A hurricane innings by Armaan Khan guided Karachi Region to inflict a crushing six wickets defeat on the Lahore Region team in the final of the First National Women’s cricket Championship at the Gaddafi Stadium here on Monday. As she hit the winning shot off the bowling of Shamsa Hahmi, who also happens to be [...]

Both the finalists will play a 40-over match for the top honours and expressed their determination to win the historic final, however the hosts Lahore women team have a psychological edge after winning the Super League encounter against Karachi region quite comfortably. When asked about the form and fitness of the players, Lahore Women captain [...]

Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, whose good looks and cavalier style has won him many female fans in his country, was mobbed by fair sex in this sleepy Indian holiday resort as well. For about 30 minutes, Pakistani heart-throb had to endure mock chiding from his Indian female fans who had come to watch him at nets [...]

Pakistan launched its first national women’s cricket championship, with organisers hoping the event will inspire up-and-coming female cricketers in the conservative Muslim country. Teams from Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Multan, Quetta, Hyderabad, Peshawar and Faisalabad are taking part. Four teams will qualify for a so-called super league, with the top two teams contesting the final on [...]

The biggest women’s colleges of India and Pakistan have started a student exchange programme aimed at boosting ties among a new generation after decades of hostility between the two countries. The Lady Sriram College (LSR) in New Delhi and Lahore’s Kinnaird College have joined hands to give students learning journalism and mass communication a chance [...]

A SENIOR police officer from Pakistan will travel to Cardiff next month to help Wales address the taboo problem of “honour crimes” against women. Some cultures, mainly from Asia, set so much store by res-pectability that women are punished – sometimes by murder – for any act deemed to bring dishonour on their families. Police [...]

Bridgettes stole the limelight in women trials to select the team to represent Pakistan in the BFAME Zonal Bridge Championship to be held in Bangladesh later this year.Bridgettes, comprising Rehana Saigol, Zeenat Azwer, Samia Rasheed, Sheerin Bokhari, Abeda Ali and Shahnaz Peerzada, earned the right of representing Pakistan by winning the trials which concluded here [...]