When the singer became the face of the movement in Pakistan, the public reaction was instant and ferocious.
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Facing threats and alienation, women push for menstrual awareness in a country where women’s health taboos limit rights.
In 1996, a court case between a father and daughter would ask: Could Pakistani women choose their own husbands?
In 1907, a herbalist in Old Delhi made a cordial to refresh his patients, inadvertently launching a scarlet empire.
In the old surgical wing of a Pakistani hospital, Dr Summaiya Syed faces great odds to bring justice to rape victims.
When the recently married resident of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan province disappeared, her family feared the worst.
One of the leading voices in Pakistan’s #MeToo movement discusses the feminist icon who inspired her.
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Some Pakistani Americans express fear over Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric; others say the US got the leader it deserves.
She was Pakistan’s first female maxillofacial surgeon. After decades of substance abuse, is she on the road to recovery?
How a homegrown burger joint pioneered a food revolution and decades later gave a young, politicised class its identity.
