Women

NEW DELHI: India's top court quashed the remission in sentence given to 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman and murdering her relatives during…

DUNEDIN: Pakistan women’s cricket team created history with an impressive 10-run victory over New Zealand in the second T20I of their series in Dunedin on Tuesday. The much-improved…

The Coca-Cola Foundation announced a community investment for the economic empowerment of Pakistan’s home chef’s sector. In their two-year partnership with Circle Women, the Foundation’s…

In Pakistan, floods have destroyed millions of houses across Pakistan. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced so far. The situation is dire. Women have been affected mainly whereas the…

The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from flying unless accompanied by a male relative, in the latest crackdown on basic human rights by the country's new rulers…

Iranian women will be allowed to enter a stadium in Tehran for the first time in two years to support the national team in a World Cup 2022 qualifier against South Korea. "The presence of…

One in seven pregnancies worldwide ends in miscarriage, and eleven percent of women endure a failed pregnancy at least once in their lifetime, experts said Tuesday. Some 23 million…

The Sri Lankan government insisted Tuesday that preventing Muslim women from wearing a burqa or niqab was a national security move, as it faced protests over the decision. Sri Lankan…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan women’s national cricket team will be in action after a gap of over 10 months for the first of the three one-day-internationals against South Africa on Wednesday. The…

India's rural landscape is notoriously male-dominated, but thousands of women have become a pillar of the farmer protests blocking roads into New Delhi that have become a huge challenge to…

ISLAMABAD: Federal Science Minister Fawad Chaudhry again accused senior journalist Ansar Abbasi of pushing for Taliban-style curbs on women in Pakistan. "You writings suggest that we are…

Twenty-seven women cricketers will arrive in Karachi on Thursday for the National High Performance Camp after they tested negative in their first Covid-19 tests. The players will undergo…

Hakam Ibrahim was seven when, like most Sudanese girls, she became a victim of female genital mutilation -- an age-old practice decried as horrific that the post-revolution government is now…

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged governments to include the protection of women in their response to the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic. Reports of domestic violence have…

Pakistan national women’s selection committee today announced a 15-player squad for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, which will be held in Australia from 21 February to 8 March. Recent…