"It's the girls that give me hope," says the celebrated poet and writer Zehra Nigah. She leads a quiet life at her home in Karachi, without a mobile phone or email. Yet those who seek her are able to ...

The girl who goes only by one name, Iqra, succumbed to multiple injuries in hospital last Wednesday. A preliminary police investigation said she had been tortured. The case in Rawalpindi has ...

It appears that they couldn’t even be bothered to take 12-year-old Iqra to hospital; some stories report that a woman who came to the house to teach the children the Quran took her to hospital.

Sanaullah, father of the victim, a resident of Chak 43 SB, told journalists here on Wednesday that Abdul Rasheed, a trader of Rawalpindi, employed her daughter Iqra (15) as house help around two ...