In 2025, women's issues remained at the centre of Pakistan's social and political narrative. While legal reforms and grassroots campaigns showed signs of progress, women continued to face violence, ...

UNHCR says Afghans coming from Iran more educated, have better food security than those returning from Pakistan.

Pakistan’s leading digital microfinance bank, Mobilink Bank, through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative has ...

In a lively classroom in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan, Salma Qadeer and Muqadas Zahra sit side-by-side, ready to learn.

In office for three terms, she traded the country’s leadership with Sheikh Hasina, the head of another political dynasty, ...

The Bank of Punjab (BOP), alongside the British Asian Trust (BAT) jointly acting as the Transaction Advisors and Program ...

As Pakistan enters 2026, there is much to celebrate alongside reasons for sober reflection. The past year brought significant ...

Pakistani religious scholars declared that banning girls’ education in Afghanistan has no religious basis, urging the Kabul administration to immediately reopen schools for female students.

Begum Khaleda Zia holds a unique position in Bangladesh's political history. As the country's first woman to serve as Prime ...

In Pakistan, debates about education tend to orbit around crumbling school buildings, lack of funds, outdated curricula, and an exam system that rewards memory over meaning. Beneath these familiar ...

Khaleda Zia, who became Bangladesh's first female prime minister in 1991 and went on to develop a bitter rivalry with Sheikh ...