KARACHI: Anum Salam will lead the Pakistan junior netball girls team in the ninth Asian Junior Girls Netball Championship, scheduled to be held in Hong Kong from Dec 14-20...
President of the Pakistan Netball Federation Mudassar Arain on Thursday announced the 13-member squad which comprises ten players, one stand-by, a coach and a manager...
ISLAMABAD: In Pakistan, 44 out of 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 bear children, the country representative of the United Nations Population Fund said in a report launched recently...
Dr Hassan Mohtashami, the country director of the United Nations Population Fund, speaking at the launch of the report said that if Pakistan had began focusing and investing in 10-year-old girls today, those children could become a beneficial...
LAHORE: Pakistan junior girls netball team left on Thursday for South Korea to take part in the 10th Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship to be played at Jeonju from May 6-13...
“The weeklong activity is being participated by Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Japan, Thailand, Brunei, Chinese Taipei, The Philippines, the UAE, Nepal, India, Pakistan and hosts South Korea,” said a spokesman for the Pakistan Netball...
KARACHI: Pakistan girls throwball team left for Nepal on Thursday morning via Dubai to participate in the World Games 2017 at Nepal which opened on Thursday...
Pakistan face Malaysia in the opening game...
MUMBAI: A woman providing education to Afghan refugee girls in Pakistan has been short-listed for a $1 million global award for teaching...
She arrived as a refugee at the Kot Chandana camp in Pakistan where there were no operational schools in the locality...
NEARLY every woman in Pakistan has been witness or victim to it...
7 boys born for every 100 girls...
Zakaria’s article ‘Pakistan’s gone girls’ (July 1)...
Pakistan’s sex ratios at birth, contrary to impressions, are in fact becoming more even than distorted...
APROPOS Ms Zakaria’s article “Pakistan’s ‘gone girls” (July 1)...
I absolutely agree with the writer about the issues of gender discrimination and son preference in Pakistan...
THIS is apropos Rafia Zakaria’s article “Pakistan’s ‘gone girls’” (July2)...
How many abortions take place due to sex selection in Pakistan has never been properly documented through research...
KUALA LUMPUR: Pakistan’s girls throwball team went down fighting against India 2-0 in the final to bag silver medal at the Asian Junior Throwball Championship which concluded here at the Bidara Court Selanyang on Thursday...
The second set too was a fine contest and Pakistan’s girls came close to pulling off a victory but Indian team made a fine comeback to win in the end 25-23 and clinched gold medal...
At a revolutionary school in Mardan, Durkhanay Banuri dreams of becoming military chief, once a mission impossible for girls in Pakistan...
Thirteen-year-old Durkhanay, a student at Pakistan's first ever Girls' Cadet College, established earlier this year in the conservative northwest, brims with enthusiasm and confidence as she sketches out her life plan...
Two girls, aged 13 and 15, were charged with the murder and carjacking of a Pakistani immigrant killed last week while working at his job delivering food in Washington, DC, in an incident a bystander captured on video...
Mohammad Anwar, 66, died when police said the girls, armed with a taser, sped off in his car as he clung to the driver’s side with the door open and crashed seconds later just outside the ballpark of the Washington...
ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom has announced a bilateral programme worth up to 130 million pounds to support girls’ education in Pakistan that will impact nearly 17 million children...
The programme, titled “Girls and Out of School: Action for Learning (GOAL)”, will support the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to improve outcomes for girls and the most marginalised...
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has identified Pakistan as one of the partners the United States has been working with to persuade the Taliban to let girls go back to school...
Addressing the launching ceremony, the top US diplomat said that besides Pakistan, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Qatar and Turkey, and others were also backing US efforts to convince the Taliban to reverse their decision to keep...
“Is the alternative for us to imagine that we can somehow artificially stitch together an alternate opposition that can command the same sort of legitimacy?”The Taliban, who had initially promised a softer approach than during their 1996-2001 regime, on Tuesday banned university education for women after already closing down secondary schooling for girls...