BEING a child in this society should not be so hard. But recurrent reports of child abuse — from burying girl children alive to torturing a 12-year-old domestic worker to death for consuming her employers’ chocolate — point to a pervasive malaise.
KARACHI: In grade 4, Zunaira Qayyum Baloch, had startled senior professor Dr Hamid Ali Baloch, and assistant professor Zahir Mengal of University of Balochistan. They were speakers at an interactive reading club session, The Importance of Reading, in the School of Intensive
From poor female employment numbers to a growing housing crisis, Karachi Census 2023 presents an accurate image of issues that need to be addressed in the city. “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support not illumination.” —
THE global female prison population is growing at a faster rate than that of men. While women still represent a smaller percentage of the total prison population in most countries, at the global level, the number of incarcerated females has increased by
Gender-based violence (GBV) covers domestic violence, sexual violence, psychological abuse, economic abuse, stalking, early forced marriages, forced pregnancy, trafficking, cybercrime, and other specific harmful practices including cutting or biting any part of body. These are deep-rooted societal issues that undermine the dignity,
A committee member told The Express Tribune that several papers contained nonsensical answers KARACHI. The fact-finding committee formed by the Sindh Assembly to investigate irregularities in the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) results visited the board office on 6 February. The
Despite constituting nearly half of Pakistan’s population, women account for only 5% of the federal government’s civilian workforce. According to the Pakistan Public Administration Research Centre, out of more than 1.2 million federal employees, only 49,508 are women. This stark underrepresentation persists
Half of the quarter-billion students who faced academic interruptions were in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan KARACHI: In South Asia, the climate crisis has made monsoons fiercer, heatwaves more severe, and floods more relentless —transforming nature’s wrath from a distant threat into an
KARACHI. The standing committees of a legislative assembly, which consist of elected members, monitor the administrative and financial affairs of their respective provincial departments in addition to guiding the elected assembly in matters of legislation related to specific sectors. Unfortunately, however, the
“The present water supply of Karachi, like that of many Eastern Cities, is insufficient. It has a capacity of only 11 to 15 million gallons per day, whereas the water demand for the city in the first stage of development is estimated to be