Despite cultural and other bearers in a male dominated society, Pakistani women proven themselves in every walk of life when it comes to pursuing a professional career. Women of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa are exploring fields that once considered exclusively ...
پشاور میں افغان قالین کی صنعت
تحریر: موسیٰ کمال یوسفزئی پاکستان میں افغان قالین کی بڑی مانگ ہے اور اکثر دوسرے شہروں سے خریدار افغان قالین خریدنے پشاور کا رخ کرتے ہیں۔ افغان قالین خیبر پختونخوا خاص کر پشاور میں کافی مقبویت حاصل کرچکے ہیں اور صوبائی دارلحکومت میں افغان قالین کی صنع ...
Samar Khan : The girl who conquers the mountains on bike
By Mansoor Bakhtiar Samar Khan a young female adventure athlete (Mountain Biking) from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is the first ever female of Pakistan to reach the K2 base camp while riding on bike. Despite the social and technical challenges, Samar Kha ...
Remembering Peshawar Church Blast Victims: Sep 22, 2013
By Anmol Sheraz The Church of Pakistan has declared September 22 as the Day of Christian Martyrs in Pakistan. On this day nine years back on September 22. 2013 twin suicide bombers killed 127 people and more than 250 got seriously injured in the de ...
Remembering Zaitoon Bano: The Qudsia Bano of Peshawar
By Kashmala Yousafzai Zaitoon Bano, the Bano Qudsia of Peshawar, called as “Khatun-e-Awal” (first lady) of Pashto fiction”, an honorary title awarded to her in recognition of her contribution to Pashtun women rights, died on September 14, 2021. Zai ...
Societal Pressure & Students
In our Asian society parents have the last say in deciding the professional career of a child much of the time if not in the all cases. Observing the regular working class in Pakistan, parents try to persuade kids to get admission in private schools ...
KP Women excelling in Martial Arts against the odds
By Mansoor Bakhtiar The female athletes from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan are gaining recognition in sports despite many challenges they face when it comes to overcoming rigid gender norms, patriarchal society and a lack of access to ...
KP’s Sehat Sahulat Card: An Overview
By Kashmala Shuja The SehatSahulat Program waslaunched in 2015 with an objective to provide the best medical and health care services to the underprivileged citizens of Pakistan through a free micro health insurance scheme. SSP was initiated to ens ...
Bannu’s First-ever woman journalist breaking stereotypes
Pakistan is one of those countries, where women still face many problems in their respective professional fields as well as domestic life. Women face domestic violence, emotional abuse, forced marriages and sexual harassment; menaces that hinder thei ...
Mohsin Dawar from cyberspace to PTM
By Kashmala Yousafzai Few days back Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) held a rally in Makeen North Waziristan, apparently to support Afghanistan but the event marred by internal rift over had exposed the vested elements within the movement. Primarily th ...