Women for Peace

SRINAGAR: A pregnant woman stuck in heavy snowfall safely delivered twins, thanks to the Indian Army which came to her aid in the nick of time and shifted her to hospital in north Kashmir’s Bandipore district. On Friday, the company commander of Panar army camp of Bandipore received a call from a villager seeking help for evacuating his pregnant wife …

On 4 February, the musical legend AR Rahman performed on stage at Dharavi to commemorate ten years of Slumdog Millionaire, the Danny Boyle movie for which he had won two Oscars. The Mozart of Madras was soon embroiled in a hate campaign because of his daughter expressing her right to choose.During the performance, Khatija had come up on stage to …

LAHORE – Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges in Pakistan, has arrived in Canada with her husband, her lawyer confirmed to German media on Friday. “She is united with her family,” Bibi’s lawyer Saif-ul-Malook told the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. Bibi’s two daughters left Pakistan in secret and flew to …

United Nations: A third of United Nations employees have reported experiencing sexual harassment at the world body over the last two years, according to the findings of the first-ever survey on such misconduct released Tuesday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told staff in a letter that the study contained “some sobering statistics and evidence of what needs to change” to improve …

New Delhi, Jan 15 (PTI) Union minister Sushma Swaraj was Tuesday moved by a Tunisian woman’s professed love for India, prompting the senior politician to say that she must have been “an Indian in her previous life”. Maha Gaida, 31, who speaks four Indian languages — Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Tamil — participated in the grand finale of the ‘Bharat …

A television station founded by an Islamic preacher who was banned from entering Britain is being investigated over comments made by a guest scholar on the subject of marriage. Ofcom, the media regulator, announced yesterday that it had opened an inquiry into remarks made on Peace TV in November by Haitham al-Haddad, a Saudi-born Islamic scholar. In an interview on …

A young Jordanian woman shares her thoughts on her identity as a Muslim woman and on how, through reflecting on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, she discovered a new lens through which to view herself and other women. As a wide-eyed, fresh graduate from one of America’s leading colleges for the study of International Relations, I was full of …

A woman in a hijab has been hailed after she was pictured helping the victims of the suspected terror attack in Manchester. High profile solicitor Nazir Afzal said the woman was “far more reflective” of the Muslim community than the attacker, after three people were stabbed at Manchester Victoria station on New Year’s Eve. A suspect was alleged to have …

BANGKOK: The Saudi woman who made a desperate plea for asylum after landing at Bangkok airport has been placed “under the care” of the United Nations refugee agency, a Thai official said late Monday. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun told AFP she ran away from her family while travelling in Kuwait because they subjected her to physical and psychological abuse. The 18-year-old …

For centuries, women have played a very significant role in shaping Kashmir and Kashmiri culture, yet seldom have their contributions received the recognition they deserve. A few years ago, a calendar issued by the Indian government that one finds in most homes here featured inspirational icons, one for each month – 10 of these were men and only two women.This …