WASHINGTON -A top US military official declared "the days of Rambo are over" as the Pentagon unveiled its plans on Tuesday for integrating women into combat infantry positions following 12 years of war in which they fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan while barred from front-line fighting ...

TOBA TEK SINGHFour unidentified men allegedly raped three women in Disposal Colony here the other night.According to detail, a widow namely Salma Bibi, her 13-year-old daughter Ayesha and a neighbour Manzooran Bib were present in her house when four persons barged into the house and forced them to ...

FAISALABADThe dream of self-sufficiency and poverty alleviation could not be materialised without empowering women in the country, said an expert during an exhibition. Dr Iqrar Ahmad, the vice chancellor of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, inaugurated a thesis exhibition organised by ...

FAISALABAD - The dream of self-sufficiency and poverty alleviation could not be materialised without empowering women in the country, said an expert during an exhibition. Dr Iqrar Ahmad, the vice chancellor of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, inaugurated a thesis exhibition organised by ...

KARACHI - Business, Academia and Civil Society supported empowering of women to participate fully in economic life in all sector and levels of economic activity as an essential initiative for establishing a stable and just society in Pakistan as the Seven Principles of Women Empowerment under the ...

At least 25 people were killed in troubled southwest Pakistan on Saturday when militants blew up a bus carrying women students and attacked a hospital treating survivors, officials said.A bomb attack on a bus in Quetta, capital of the restive Baluchistan province, killed 14 women students, and ...

FAISALABADFive personnel of the Elite Force who entered the houses of people and manhandled women in the city, have been suspended.According to police spokesman, five personnel of the Elite Force have been suspended on directives by Faisalabad CPO Rifat Mukhtar Raja on the charge that they forced ...

Higher police authorities took serious action and suspended five policemen who entered the houses and tortured women in Faisalabad after protests against loadshedding. It should be mentioned that frustrated with the unannounced and prolonged loadshedding residents of various areas of Faisalabad ...

GUJRANWALA/KANGANPUR/HAFIZABADAt least nine persons including three women and a minor were killed and five others injured in separate incidents of enmity and road accidents over the past 24 hours. According to detail, a couple was brutally murdered by the girl's brother for contracting free-will ...

CHINIOTThe police arrested two women dacoits along with weapons here the other day. As per detail, the Bhowana Police raided a den of dacoits at Thatta Fateh Ali village where two women and three men dacoits were hiding. The police managed to arrest two women dacoits identified as Shamim Bibi and ...

The first 25 members of the Nawaz Sharif cabinet have been sworn in. It is noticeable that women are missing. The two berths given to them have as yet not been allocated portfolios. It is very much a man's world among the PML-N wallahs. I remember I was once at a private party in Lahore at ...

LONDON (BBC): AM Homes has beaten Hilary Mantel to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel May We Be Forgiven, a dark satire of contemporary America. Homes, the fifth American writer in a row to win the £30,000 annual prize, said she was “thrilled” to receive ...

QUETTA - Two militants, two women and a child were killed and 15 security personnel got injured during an operation against militants in Kharotabad area of Quetta in the wee hours of Thursday.Police and Frontier Corps (FC) raided a house in Killi Barat area of Kharotabad where some militants were ...

PESHAWAR -Participants at a workshop have stressed the need for prevention of gender-based violence against women in society, especially at the women inmate centres and police stations.“Effective steps needed to take by the government and relevant departments to end gender-based violence ...

LONDON  -US singer Beyonce performed a set full of female anthems on Saturday at a London concert to raise funds for women's health, education and justice.The concert, which organizers hoped would reach a billion viewers, was staged by Chime For Change, a charity started by Italian fashion ...

Peshawar- Speakers at a seminar on Saturday demanded equal share for women politicians in key positions at provincial and federal levels.Women political leaders belonging to main political parties reiterated that all political parties of the country should acknowledge the contribution and ...

LONDON- Singers Beyonce and Madonna, activist Gloria Steinem and Bishop Desmond Tutu will be among big names reaching out to a billion people from a pop concert in London on Saturday with a message of empowerment for women across the planet.The “Sound of Change Live” gig headlined ...

MINCHINABADThree women were raped in different areas of the tehsil over past 72 hours.According to details, a woman was allegedly gang raped here in the remit of Ghumandpur Police. The accused even thrashed the family of the victim when they were proceeding for the police station to register a ...

LALAMUSA/HAFIZABAD/SHEIKHUPURAAt least six persons including two women were killed and 19 other injured in separate incidents of violence, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours.According to detail, in Lalamusa enraged wife with the help of her son and daughters allegedly killed her husband ...

LAHORE - Punjab female gymnasts demonstrated superior techniques to clinch the National Girls Gymnastic Championship title here on Friday at the Government College University Lahore Hall. Punjab girls laboured over three hours on their way to the title success to complete the ground work and ...

ISLAMABAD - Defending champions Wapda girls dominated the inaugural day of the 45th National Athletics Championships female events held here at the Jinnah Stadium, Pakistan Sports Complex on Friday. Defending champions Army maintained their supremacy in male category. In the 10,000 meter female ...

BAHAWALNAGAR/ATTOCK/KHANEWALAt least 15 persons including four women were killed and 12 others injured in separate incidents of violence, enmity, honour killing and road mishaps over the past 24 hours.According to detail, two persons were killed and another sustained critical injuries when ...

QUETTA - Four women and a man were killed and two others were wounded in an armed attack on a house in Sibi on Thursday, police said.Police said that unknown armed men barged into an alleged brothel situated on Noopur Road in Sibi and opened indiscriminate firing.Five people, including four women ...

NEW YORK - German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes’s list of the world’s most powerful women for the third consecutive year, followed by Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, the magazine said Wednesday.They were followed by Melinda Gates - who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates ...

LAHORE:- The opening ceremony of the first All Pakistan Amar Cables Twenty20 Women Cricket Tournament will be held today (Wednesday) here at the Punjab Women Cricket Academy Model Town ground. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Director Game Development Intikhab Alam will be the chief guest on the ...

ISLAMABAD - It was for the first time in the history of Pakistan that turnout exceeded 55 per cent during recently held elections. However, females were once again barred from voting in some parts of country, including Orakzai Agency, where allegedly male voters cast votes on behalf of females who ...

KOT RADHA KISHAN/ SARGODHA/HAFIZABAD At least 15 persons including three women and three minors were killed and four others injured separate incidents of honour killing, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours. According to detail, three youths were drowned while taking bath in canal in two ...

INDIANAPOLIS - Britain's Katherine Legge and Pippa Mann and Brazilian Ana Beatriz joined the Indianapolis 500 starting grid on Sunday to match a race record four women starters in this year's field.The trio joined Swiss racer Simona de Silvestro, who qualified Saturday, to match the mark from 2010 ...

QUETTA - OUR STAFF REPORTER/INP - The Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) Women Wing on Monday took out a rally and staged a protest demonstration outside the Quetta Press Club on Monday against what they alleged rigging in the May 11 polls.The protesters, carrying placards and banners ...

TOBA TEK SINGH/GUJRANWALAAt least nine persons including four women and two minor girls were killed and nine others injured in separate incidents of violence, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours. According to detail, in Toba Tek Singh a youth killed his two real sisters over a domestic ...