Violence against women is a violation of basic human rights and an obstacle in achieving equality, and social and economic development. The existing discrimination and violence against women have its roots in the historically unequal distribution of power between men and women. This inequality is a stumbling block for women to actualize their true potential. […]
A woman student of Government College University Lahore was allegedly raped by her four classmates in Chiniot on Monday. She was also tortured and filmed while being subjected to violence. The police registered an FIR and apprehended one of the four men named as Shahid. The police are yet to locate three other men, but […]
Police have detained the wife of the prime suspect in the motorway rape case to investigate the whereabouts of Abdi Malhi, who continues to evade arrest in the case. In an initial statement recorded with police, the wife — who was arrested from the house of the suspect’s parents in Manga Mandi, Lahore — said […]