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October 8 earthquake in Pakistan destroyed the life of many a homes and shattered the budding dream of many youngsters. However, as the saying goes, ‘only if you dream, you will achieve’, many young girls in Pakistan are being encouraged by the...
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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...
made popular Apr 6 2009
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...
made popular Feb 19 2009
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...
made popular Dec 3 2008
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...
made popular Oct 7 2008
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...
made popular Oct 6 2008
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...
made popular Jul 21 2007
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...
made popular May 19 2007
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...
made popular May 18 2007
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,...
made popular May 14 2007
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,...
made popular Feb 1 2007
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...
made popular Jan 22 2007
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...
made popular Sep 19 2006
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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A major controversy is let loose in the ‘women only’ university in Pakistan. Fatima Jinnah University, based in Rawalpindi is recently attacked by the...
made popular Jul 5 2006
Life of Pakistani girls is not getting any better: they are being shot in the name of ‘Honor Killing’ and now they are facing dangers when they marry out of...
made popular May 11 2006
Women’s and girls’ in Pakistan not only suffers from religious practices like ‘Honor Killings’ but a recent statement released by the World Bank...
made popular May 8 2006
In the Pucca Ghanjeranwala village in Mianwali District of Pakistan, two of the girls have refused to give their lives up to the barbaric Vani Custom.
Vani Custom is...
made popular Apr 5 2006
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