Tag: women empowerment
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Mariam Ansari is not okay with holier-than-thou comments on her pregnancy shoot
Kuch behtar nahi hai apni zindagi mein karne kay liye than to think that a happy pregnant woman is doing something wrong with her life? Pakistanis are used to watching unhappy women both on screens and in their lives. When they watch a woman celebrating a pregnancy or being happy in her marriage, they see…
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Activist Malala Yousafzai sends support to Afghanistan women’s football team
Women’s rights activist and Noble Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has expressed her support for the women’s football team from Afghanistan, who were banned by the current Taliban government from playing the sport after the takeover in 2021. Currently, the team resides in Melbourne, Australia, where they escaped to in 2021, but right now the football…
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TW: Policeman sets his 14-year-old wife on fire over dowry
TRIGGER WARNING: abuse, domestic violence A 14-year-old girl married to a policeman in Sialkot has been set on fire after her husband became unhappy with the dowry provided to him. According to the complaint filed with the Sialkot police by labourer Tariq Mahmood, his daughter Muneeb Fatima, was married to Constable Waqas Nazir, who was…
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Social media shocked at sudden take down of popular Facebook group Soul Bitches
Social media users were left shocked on Wednesday when they discovered that popular community group Soul Bitches has been taken down from Facebook without any warning. Soul Bitches was a popular community group on Facebook where women from all over Pakistan could share their stories and seek refuge in situations of abuse or domestic violence.…
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Groping a girl okay, if it’s less than ten seconds, rules Italian court
Trigger warning: discussion of harassment, victim blaming Protests and demonstrations are erupting in Italy after a judge cleared a man of charges of sexual harassment of a teenager because the groping had lasted “a handful of seconds”. The survivor, a 17 year old student, took 66 year old Antonio Avola to court when he groped…
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Saying goodbye to ‘Kuch Ankahi’ with the five times it completely blew us away
From the moment it graced our screens, ‘Kuch Ankahi’- with its story of three sisters dealing with marriage pressure, workplace harassment, taking on a challenging careers- seared itself on the Pakistani entertainment industry as a cultural milestone that told a gorgeous story about the bond of sisterhood. Only 26 episodes long, ‘Kuch Ankahi’ won our…
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Pink taxis for women in Sindh
The Sindh government is all set to launch a “Pink Taxi Service” featuring electric cars for facilitating female citizens of the province. The development was announced by Minister for Information Sharjeel Inam Memon. The minister said that initially, 200 electricity-powered taxis will start operating in Karachi, of which fifty will be women-only taxis driven by…
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Ten things Anoushey Ashraf wants Pakistani women to remember
Actress and VJ Anoushey Ashraf has shared a list of ten things she wishes all Pakistani women should remember in order to live a more fulfilled and enjoyable life. Taking to Instagram, she wrote that everyday she remembers to pray and thank God for all the things in her life, good or bad. Ranging from…
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‘Domestic violence is not a personal issue’: Social media slams Ushna Shah for justifying support for Feroze Khan
Actor Ushna Shah has been in hot waters in the past few days after she shared a picture of herself with controversial actor Feroze Khan at a gym on Instagram. She quoted a hadith that called for Ramzan to be a month of mercy and forgiveness. In her next post, she recalled the death of…
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TRIGGER WARNING: Lodhran court sentences man to 25 years in prison for raping daughter
A court in the Lodhran has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison and subjected to Rs 1,00,000 fine for torturing and raping his 15 year old daughter, as reported by Express Tribune. The rape case was filed by the survivor’s paternal aunt, Yasan, who revealed that she was suspicious when the father, Irshad,…