LIIBS 7th Edition: leaders unite for collaborative development
Legislators, economists and business leaders advocate for bridging the political and social divide, shared goals to address social, economic and environmental challenges.
Read More
News
Falak Noor case: women’s rights bodies rubbish G-B govt stance
News Desk The recent surge in gender-based crime against women and young girls in Gilgit-Baltistan has sparked widespread outrage and
Read More
‘Invest in women to accelerate progress’
News Desk Karachi: A leading global financial information and analytics firm has launched a new initiative to recruit talented women
Read More
Faysal Bank, Womenza join force to empower freelancers
Recognizing the importance of empowering women freelancers and promoting gender equality in the workforce, Faysal Bank has partnered with Womenza Pakistan to support and uplift women in the freelancing industry.
Read More
Lahore incident: civil liberties vs intolerance
It is deeply troubling that a bunch of misguided obscurantist segments resort to threats and violence to suppress freedom of expression.
Read More
Shi’ites suffer discrimination under Taliban rule
The Taliban are becoming increasingly intolerant of public expressions and displays of the Shi’ite religious faith,” said Niamatullah Ibrahimi, senior lecturer at Australia’s La Trobe University.
Read More
To combat workplace harassment, change mindset
Creating a safe and inclusive work environment necessitates collective efforts from organizations, individuals, and society as a whole.
Read More
Ex-KP minister parts way with PTI
Irshad Ullah Khan PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been nearing to follow on as another wicket gone for a duck
Read More
Enforced disappearances: an offence to human dignity
Enforced disappearances has become pervasive in Pakistan. The use of enforced disappearances as a tool by security agencies to silence dissent, particularly political activists, journalists, students, and even children in Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh provinces has increased alarmingly.
Read More
‘Journalism is not a crime’
Behboudi is one of six co-founders of Guiti News, an online media platform managed by French and refugee journalists focused on the recent issues caused by mass migration. He was forced to flee Afghanistan due to the rising danger to journalists, and in 2015 he moved to Paris after being granted asylum.
Read More
Ban on women: Taliban in a standoff with UN
The UN has asked all its staff to remain at home after the Taliban banned Afghan women from working for the world body. Hundreds of Afghan women employed by the UN are critical in delivering life-saving aid in Afghanistan, where millions are at risk of starvation.
Read More
G-B: gender disparity and geography
Rugged terrain of the region amplifies gender disparity in work. According to the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey 2019-20, the labor force participation rate for women in Gilgit-Baltistan was only 18%, significantly lower than the rate for men, which was 65%. This disparity is also evident in the education sector where the literacy rate for women in Gilgit-Baltistan is only 31%, compared to 58% for men.
Read More
‘Women empowerment key to building resilient communities’
By Our correspondent Speaker of an event organised in connection with International Women’s Day highlighted the role of women in
Read More
Ecocide in the Indus basin
By Hassan Abbas On Sept 19, 1960, a treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on water sharing. The decisions
Read More
A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis
Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological
Read More