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For men, there might be a difference between a rapist and a sexual harasser, but for us women, it’s one and the same
Why do we jail people for possessing child pornography when we know that it isn’t as bad as actually raping children?
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Naureen Laghari, Pakistan’s very own IS bride
Mashal Khan's fate and Naureen Laghari's case prove that the battle is already being fought on our home grounds.
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Why would CAA break down the beautiful mural created by the Italian artist?
CAA needs to apologise to Boscheri and the Italian Consulate under whose auspices he visited and painted this mural.
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Is Islam the most feminist religion?
Feminism is the mechanism by which I fight for the rights taken away from me by men in my country in the name of Islam
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An evening with the Girls in Green
It’s the fierce determinations of the women themselves that shines out in everything they do, say, and are.
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In Pakistan, we have 13-year-old rape victims
The teacher has been arrested, and has confessed to the crime (now that the child is four months pregnant).
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Why Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy made A Girl in the River
Sharmeen's film shows us the mind-set that says a girl is a man’s property, to be killed if she disobeys his...
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Will Maryam Nawaz invest Michelle Obama’s $70 million anywhere outside of Punjab?
These reforms will not be replicated in Balochistan, which has the vast majority of out of school girls, or in Sindh.
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Why were Karachi University girls beaten up for playing cricket?
Campus violence involving political and religious groups has long plagued Pakistani universities, especially KU.
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Tortured, beaten and raped: Is sexual terrorism ever going to end?
This type of violence has little to do with sex and much more with power. It is a type of terrorism.