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Warning bells toll for maternal health in Pakistan
With 50% of Pakistan’s population comprising women, major challenges arise to improve their economic and social conditions. According to the Pakistan Conflict Monitor, warning bells for the status of...
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The case of the third gender
The incidence of the third gender or transgender is not known in Pakistan. An estimate of transgender persons in India is around 1:400. Pakistan being in the same ethno-geographical class may have...
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Sindh’s daughters raped as judiciary stands by
If the condition of any society is to be judged by the way it treats its vulnerable and infirm than the level of violence against women and rape paints a very grim picture of the Pakistani society....
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Strengthening medico-legal evidence
Not a single day passes without news items blackening the pages and our media screens about violent deaths and assaults on women and children.. Editorials cover issues from domestic violence to...
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Protecting our children
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa Child Protection and Welfare Ordinance has recently been promulgated This is good news and will hopefully be passed by the assembly as a bill soon. It has been reported that a...
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Guns and poppies in Sindh
There are powerful people who suddenly appear with lots of arms, all brand new, semi-automatic weapons, into villages like Buriro , in rural Dadu, Sindh. People, the poor villagers are asked to hand...
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T2F: A pursuit of the heart
I first saw Sabeen Mahmud in 2000 at the TIE-Indus seminar, their first in Pakistan at the Sheraton, Karachi. She was bubbling with enthusiasm. Dressed in trousers with short cropped hair and holding a...
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The Pakistan Jinnah envisioned
I have been reading the Dawn newspaper since I was a child and it helped form a clear, balanced image of the founder of Pakistan in my mind. This year as I read an article by Jinnah expert Shariful...
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Sindh’s elite must change now
It has become clear that the state of Sindh’s health is desperate. There is an acute shortage of vaccines, trained paramedical staff including lady health workers. Multi-national pharmaceutical...
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Hungry for some rights
The fundamental right of the citizen to food, shelter and water is enshrined in the constitution. With an increasing number of people falling below the poverty line - without any social safety nets in...
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