Pakistan

Imagined citizenship: Women, State and Politics in Pakistan

This publication is the full Pakistan Country Report of the regional research study 'Women and Governance in South Asia: Re-Imagining the State.' The study aimed to understand the nature of, and impediments to, women's participation in political life and governance; to elicit women's vision(s) of what the state structure and political culture should be; and to identify their recommendations for refining and altering those processes for political participation that are currently inadequate to meet women's needs.

Imagined citizenship: Women, State and Politics in Pakistan in Urdu

This is the Urdu version of the full Pakistan Country Report of the regional research study: Women and Governance in South Asia: Re-Imagining the State. The study aimed to understand the nature of, and impediments to, women's participation in political life and governance; to elicit women's vision(s) of what the state structure and political culture should be; and to identify their recommendations for refining and altering those processes for political participation that are currently inadequate to meet women's needs.

Pakistan: Forced conversion of Hindu women in Karachi

This story has grave implications, not merely as a case of atrocities on 'religious minorities' but where an ideology of religious genocide uses such a technique on young 'unmarried' women - whether through threat of rape or this kind of imprisonment.

Pakistan: Attacks leave churches gutted and religious minorities living in fear

Mob's rampage in Pakistan after rumours of Qur'an desecration worries communities that usually live in peace.

Pakistan: Motherland

How the earthquake has aggravated the lack of healthcare for expecting mothers.

Pakistan: Report from the Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation

A progress report on weeks three and four (22 October - 4 November 2005) after the earthquake.

Pakistan: Shirkat Gah earthquake relief report

Shirkat Gah feels an urgent need to document JAC-ERE and selected civil society initiatives on a priority basis to facilitate the identification of the most urgent needs and will also be undertaking monitoring and advocacy.

Pakistan: Pregnant earthquake survivors face life-threatening complications

UNFPA warns that some 17,000 earthquake-affected women in Pakistan are expected to give birth in the next two months. An estimated 1,200 of them will face major complications and about 400 will require surgical assistance.

Pakistan: MADRE partners with Shirkat Gah to deliver earthquake relief

MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, is partnering with the Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Center in Pakistan to deliver emergency aid to women and families in remote regions devastated by the October 8th earthquake.

Pakistan: Relief goods steadily rolling north

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of more than 500 volunteers from Karachi, Gwadar, Dubai and large and small towns of all four provinces has been sending relief goods including emergency medicines and daily items to the disaster-hit areas.