January 5, 2013

In praise of capital punishment

By: Dr Rakhshinda Perveen The death penalty in the specific social, economic and political context of Pakistan should not be seen as a desire or urge for revenge What should

Women of South Asia — Unite!

By: S Saba Bokhari O Woman ! Thy pain in Anonymity — The reprehension, the revolt — for public scrutiny, Mandatory. Women of South Asia — Unite. The history of

19-year-old boy sodomised, poisoned in Burewala

LAHORE: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says it has received information that a 19-year-old tea vender in Burewala was sodomised and poisoned and he later died in hospital in

Targeting Hindu girls for rape

By: Ayesha Asghar We have heard all about how rape is used as weapon in mass-scale war. Several thousand women were brutally raped in the 1971 war in East Pakistan

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