Naurah Khurshid

The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report for this year places Pakistan second last out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity. According to the report, based on the progress made to close the gender gap in South Asia, it will take another 197 years to reach gender parity. Pakistan is consistently ranked at the bottom among other ...

The recent act of verbal abuse directed by Pakistanis at Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, while she was in one of Islam’s holiest sites, is yet another reminder of the rampant misogyny that plagues Pakistani politics. As if that was not horrific enough, some ex-ministers belonging to the PTI posted the video of the incident from their ...