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May 30, 2012
Pakistan: Women in Parliament Push for Space

The Aurat Foundation study titled ‘A five year report on: Performance of Women Parliamentarians in the 12th National Assembly (2002-2007)’ states that women MPs moved 27 percent of the total questions; 30 percent of the total calling attention notices; 24 percent of the total resolutions and 42 p

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: Electoral Process a Menace for Women

The electoral process needs to be simplified since women have to go through great challenges during the current process of voting in the country, said Sharmila Farooqui, Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister (CM).

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: A Step Forward

The bill outlawing domestic violence passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday is a step in the right direction.

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: Concerted Effort Needed for Political Rights to Women

All stakeholders will have to struggle to ensure the rights of women in politics, participants of a regional conference on engendering democracies said on Wednesday.The senior rights activists and experts expressed these views on the first day of the two-day international conference under the tit

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: Legislators Demand Arrest of Benazir’s Killers

A resolution, moved by Munawar Abbasi and supported by several other legislators, paid tribute to the life and politics of Benazir Bhutto.

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: A Show of Womanpower

Hundreds of civil society activists from scores of different organisations working for the empowerment of women gathered together at The Mall on Sunday to hold a rally in connection with International Women’s Day, which is being observed around the world today (Monday).Parliamentarians Shakeela R

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: Woman Politician Wins Even by Losing

An illiterate peasant who is a mother of nine, Jori had made a bid for the PB-25 Jafarabad seat in the Sindh provincial assembly that had suddenly been vacated with the killing of its occupant, Sardarzada Rustam Jamali.Few had expected her to win in the by-elections held on Mar. 10.

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: A Woman Like Benazir

Bhutto was a powerful symbol for women in South Asia. Her homecoming to Pakistan in 2007 after eight long years in exile managed to make us forget about Bhutto's (more specifically her husband's) countless corruption charges.

May 30, 2012
Pakistan: Women Participation in Politics Urged

Speakers at a seminar, ìWomen, Religion and Politicsî, said Saturday that political parties should give equal opportunities to women so that they could play their role in the progress of the country.