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It's been evident for a long time that the state of education in the country has been worsening and the latest case involving the apex c...

I was not at all surprised when the learned Justice Mohammed Azam Khan of the Islamabad High Court did not annul the marriage of an under-ag...

After the horrific murder of a man and woman in Baluchistan, a spate of honor killings has erupted in the country. It's like a contagiou...

Most of the rural areas in Pakistan are still controlled by tribal chieftains who have their own interpretation of Islam. Some of them belie...

Iddat is the mandatory waiting period to be observed by widows or divorced Muslim women. The main reason for it is that by the end of four m...

If there is one thing most Pakistanis are concerned about, it's a woman who lives alone, particularly if she's a working woman. Thir...

Embed from Getty Images When someone tells me about how women in the west are exploited, I'm tempted to point out that those women are g...

If there's one thing most Pakistani men believe firmly, it's that women are responsible for all their problems. If a man loses his j...

Embed from Getty Images Pakistani men are mostly illiterate and are easily provoked, particularly if they feel (or are told) that their ...

For every Muslim woman, particularly if she's a Pakistani, it's an ordeal just to survive. Every where she goes, she's regarded ...

In 2005 I went to Saudi Arabia for performing Haj with my wife and daughter. We wanted to see the huge cemetery outside Madina where some Mu...

Irfan Memon, a school principal in Malir (a suburb of Karachi), is accused of raping more than twenty five women whom he had promised to emp...

Way back in 1970, I received a wedding card from my Baloch contractor. The card had two names printed, both males. One was that of an uncle,...

It's simply amazing, the lack of knowledge among Pakistanis. A man killed his seven-day old daughter because he wanted a son. This happe...

Of course we should be outraged that four hundred men assaulted and stripped a girl of her clothes. But more outrageous is the fact that the...

The northern areas of Pakistan are inhabited by illiterate people whose mindsets are similar to those who lived in the stone Age. I was in S...

When Mukhtaran Mai was gang-raped by nine men, the misogynist Parvez Musharraf (who, like me, is a patrician), blamed her for the incident. ...

I have two female relatives who are aged 94 or 95. I often wonder why they go on living. One of them simply stares with unblinking eyes with...

A few months back, religious scholar Tariq Jamil blamed "bay-parda" women in Pakistan for the havoc created by the Corona virus. A...

  Last night a woman driving on the motorway from Lahore to nearby Gujranwalla had to stop as her car had run out of petrol. She called the ...