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The Sindhi language has a long history of arts, literature, and culture. The first Sindhi newspaper was Sind Sudhar, founded in 1884. Sindhi language newspapers played a vital role for Independence in 1947; In 1920, Al-Wahid newspaper published by Haji Abdullah Haroon in Karachi.
The Friday Times was first published in May 1989. [ 4] TFT's founder-editor Najam Sethi and publisher Jugnu Mohsin, a husband-and-wife team, are recipients of international awards conferred by Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists. [ 5][ 3] In 2009, Sethi also won the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom ...
Founded on 4 April 2004 From Quetta balochistan. Online (digital) publication started in 2011. 3. The Dayspring [4] Fortnightly. English. Islamabad. 2018. Pakistan first youth centric news agency independent newspaper of Dayspring Media, launched on 1 November 2018.
The founder, chief editor and publisher, Rehmat Shah Afridi, has been termed a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty International due to his longstanding struggle for democracy and media freedom in Pakistan; [5] Afridi was arrested in 1999. [6] Jalil Afridi had been running The Frontier Post as its Managing Editor since 1999. [citation needed]
The Punjab Commission on Status of Women ( PCSW) is a human rights institution in Pakistan, which was established by the Government of Punjab in March 2014 under the PCSW Act, 2014. [1] Its mandate is to work for the empowerment of women, expansion of opportunities for socio-economic development of women, and elimination of all forms of ...
Marriageable age and divorce. Divorce in Pakistan is regulated by the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act (1939, amended in 1961) and the Family Courts Act (1964). The Child Marriage Restraint Act or CMRA (1929) set the marrying age for women at 16; in the province of Sindh, as per the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, it is 18.
Rank. 135th out of 191. Global Gender Gap Index [ 2] Value. 0.575 (2023) Rank. 142th out of 146 (2023) Women in Pakistan make up 48.76% of the population according to the 2017 census of Pakistan. [ 3] Women in Pakistan have played an important role throughout Pakistan's history [ 4] and they are allowed to vote in elections since 1956. [ 5]
Violence against women in Pakistan, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights in Pakistan. [ 1][ 2] Women in Pakistan mainly encounter violence by being forced into marriage, through workplace sexual harassment, domestic violence and by honour killings.