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The video footage of a 17-year-old girl being flogged by Taliban in Swat has received nationwide attention including condemnation from the President of Pakistan and sou motu notices by the Chief Justice of Pakistan. At the same time, honor killings of...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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Sri Lanka has increased security arrangements and tightened security rules for the visiting Pakistani cricket team, which is about to start a test series with Sri Lanka...
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The last time the two teams met was in the final of the ICC World Twenty20 in England. But the last time these two teams met on a Test cricket pitch was back in March...
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Morals and manners were thrown aside in session of the Punjab Assembly, on Monday June 29, as male and female parliamentarians from different political parties engaged...
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The United States has spent some $12 billion trying to help Pakistan save itself. Unfortunately, Washington has lavished most of the aid on the Pakistan army. It is...
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Pakistan has been ranked 10th among the top ten failed states in the world, according to Foreign Policy Journal’s index for 2009. Last year, Pakistan remained the 9th...
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Personnel of Pakistan Army, Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), and Pakistan Railways collectively top the number of natural gas defaulters in the country,...
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In the first suicide bombing taking place in Azad Jammu & Kashmir on Friday (June 26, 2009), two soldiers were killed and three others injured, early morning in...
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During last few days numbers of foreign sponsored terrorists have been apprehended by intelligence agencies and police in the campaign against militancy. On 26...
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Pakistan’s ex Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been acquitted by the Lahore High Court (Rawalpindi Bench) in the chopper case, annulling the decree of the...
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US President Barack Obama recently carried out visit of various Arab countries and tried to restore American image in the eyes of public by sparking against the Bush...
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President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out India as a military threat to Pakistan. Instead, Mr. Zardari thinks, Taliban are the real threat not only to Pakistan but also...
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Pakistani PhD students, pursuing their PhD studies in Turkey, are facing trouble due to stoppage of stipends from Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC). In a...
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The assassination of the leader of a renegade Pakistani Taliban faction by one of his own men Tuesday underscores a growing rift in the ranks of the militant group as...
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Poor Noor’s hope for getting something to eat was dampened when she found her confidant Zakia sitting with women from the neighborhood. It was already dark outside...
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Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — The Pakistani army has exceeded expectations in its offensive against Taliban fighters in northwestern Pakistan, effectively...
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The final match of the T20 World Cup was a match where Shahid Afridi had the chance to wash away all the criticism he had faced in the past. He played one of the finest...
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The minister said the army would now target South Waziristan, the stronghold of the head of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud.
“As soon as Baitullah is...
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There are several Western Union service points in Peshawar but many of them are of little use to customers, especially on Fridays. People living in or near the...
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The highest incidence of violence against women in Pakistan, in the year 2008, has been reported in the Punjab province. In a news report, published in the English...
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Honor killings in the southern-coastal Iraqi city of Basra have seen a 70% increase in the past year. And authorities are helpless in the stopping of such crimes and...
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Muslim honor killings of daughters came to Georgia last month.A Pakistani immigrant who strangled his daughter because she wanted to end her arranged marriage did it...
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Sandela Kanwal wanted a divorce for unknown reasons. Maybe her husband in Chicago was a wife-beater. Maybe she just didn’t like him. We don’t know. For...
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No doubt, the monster of terrorism is engulfing the world day by day but along with this, there is a creeping predicament that too is swallowing up human race but...
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A gruesome incident, which led to the death of a teen in north of Iraq created a widespread condemnation. It was able to gather attention of international media because...
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London is experiencing an increase in the honor killings. Thousands of young women in Britain are living in fear of the ‘hidden scourge’ of so-called honour...
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The State shall guarantee coordination between a woman’s duties toward her family and her work in the society, considering her equal to man in the political,...
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Clouds of sectarian violence could be anticipated between Muslims and Yazidis in Kurdistan Region.
The killing of young girl Du’a Khalil Aswad has ignited...
made popular May 7 2007
It seems that the notorious killings in the name of family honor are next to impossible to root out from the social milieu of Muslim countries, worse yet is that they...
made popular Mar 12 2007
A married woman can leave her husband’s house only in a coffin- is a famous epitaph in most of the chauvinistic driven Islamic countries.
Are women a mere...
made popular Feb 14 2007
We’ve heard a lot from these chauvinistic ridden Muslim countries regarding polygamy, honor killings, parents bartering their minor girls to drug lords,...
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It is a problem that is spread across the Islamic world like a dreaded disease. And turkey is no stranger to the inhuman concept of honor killings.
The killing of...
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Are women in Islamic culture a property than a mere human being?
A married woman can leave her husband only in a coffin- is a famous epitaph in most of the...
made popular Jan 10 2007
Zahoor Ahmed and his wife Naseem were burnt alive in Pakistan.
The incident happened in Chak Saboo village on Tuesday and their children were present at the place....
made popular Jan 9 2007
Perhaps, we would never know what’s buried behind those veils, which have metamorphosed into their graves now!
For years, women in Pakistan have been denied the...
made popular Jan 9 2007
Women in Pakistan live in constant fear. They face death by shooting, burning or killing with axes if they are deemed to have brought shame on the family.
The lives of...
made popular Jan 5 2007
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has publicized that there has been a noteworthy increase in the number of honor killings of native women in...
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Muslim women across the Middle East Nations are suffering from escalating violence. Near about 5,000 honor killings are recorded every year in these countries.
How can...
made popular Aug 21 2006
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