Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl and activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education, has been reunited with her friend Shazia Ramzan who was on the same school bus when gunmen opened fire last October.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned a series of deadly attacks on hospital patients as well as female teachers and students at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University in Pakistan on Saturday, saying that such violence is meant to deter women “from attaining a basic right to education.”
Today is Pakistan's Parliament voting day, and many of the 37 million registered female voters are defying militant groups' death threats and social ostracism to get their say on paper. Recent research as the voting day neared found that 564 out of the 64,000 polling districts hadn't seen a single female vote in the…
Last night in New York at the Women In The World summit, Angelina Jolie introduced a video of message from Malala Yousafzai, saying:
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani superhero for girls' education who was shot by the Taliban last October, headed back to school today at a private girls' high school. The bionic girl and her family relocated to Birmingham, England and she appears to be blending in just fine with the normals.
Gunmen shot five Pakistani women who were working on a U.N. polio vaccination campaign in two different cities today. Good morning!
Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban for being an outspoken proponent of equal education while walking home from school, continues on her remarkable path to recovery, having finally regained the ability to speak. Her parents have recently traveled to the UK…
Great news: Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old schoolgirl and outspoken equal education rights advocate who was shot by the Taliban for being "pro-West" (among other points of contention), is recovering relatively quickly. According to medical officials at the British hospital she was transported to after her…
Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for having the audacity to promote women's education, will be getting some extra-special first-aide if her condition worsens. According to the AP, the United Arab Emirates plans to send a specially-outfitted aircraft to ferry Yousufzai abroad…
The Taliban's latest target is a 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl.
Despite growing conservatism, more Pakistani women are working and studying alongside their male peers, prompting a name-brand shopping boom in the process.
In what the Guardian is describing as an "extraordinary" reversal in the case of a young Christian girl facing a death sentence for blasphemy, Pakistani police have arrested a mullah named Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti on the suspicion that he added pages of the Qu'ran to charred material the girl was carrying in…
This episode of Everyone is Horrible is brought to you by the letters W, T, and F, and the number 20,000,000. The US government has withdrawn funding from a $20 million project designed to launch the Pakistani version of Sesame Street after it was revealed that the puppet theater that was supposed to be creating…
In Pakistan, the nose is considered a symbol of family honor, which is why women's faces are often the a target of assault when they're perceived to have "shamed" the family in some way. As of 2011, 943 women were murdered, 9 had their noses cut off, 98 were tortured, 47 set on fire and 38 attacked with acid.
Pakistani Christian girls jump on a trampoline while celebrating Easter outside St. John's Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, April 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
Osama Bin Laden's three former wives and two daughters have been under house arrest since March 3rd for living in Pakistan illegally, and they'll remain there for 15 more days before being deported, Pakistani officials announced today. Analysts told the Guardian that Pakistan may have sought a longer prison sentence…
A dressed monkey sits at a roadside to earn money from passers-by for his owner in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, Jan 13, 2012. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
A pair of bills passed by Pakistan's parliament today have made it illegal to throw acid on women or force them into prostitution. Progress!
Pakistani star Veena Malik appears on the cover of FHM India wearing nothing but a "tattoo" of the letters "ISI" (a reference to a spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence). But Malik claims that when she posed for the photographer, she wore a bikini, hot pants and a thong — topless, but never fully nude. She's suing…
If you were hoping to send the following frustrated text in Pakistan— "Jesus Christ— It's harder than ever to find good chicken breasts these days"— think again. Several words in that sentence have been placed on a list that Pakistan's communications agency says indicate spam, and soon, texts containing those words…
