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Pak religious affairs minister urges Imran Khan to ban 'anti-Islam slogans
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 19 (ANI): As the annual Aurat March continues to be targeted by the upholders of the patriarchal mindset in Pakistan, the Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony, Noorul Haq Qadri has urged the Imran Khan government not to allow any organisation o
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Blasphemy a tool to silence women's rights activists in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): The charge of blasphemy has been used as a tool to silence many in Pakistan, especially annual Aurat March that continues to be targeted with unsubstantiated allegations, and scandalized by, as experts call then, upholders of patriarchal inertia.
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Pakistan: Aurat March organisers condemn FIR over 'blasphemy'
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 20 (ANI): Aurat March organisers in Islamabad have condemned and expressed concern over the first information report (FIR) registered in a Peshawar Police Station on the charge of committing blasphemy.
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Pakistan: Aurat March organisers booked over blasphemy by Peshawar police
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Aurat March organisers and participants on Thursday were booked by Peshawar police in Islamabad on the orders of a local court on the charge of committing blasphemy.
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Pakistan: Women activists facing blasphemy allegations after 'Aurat March'
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 8 (ANI): The controversial Blasphemy law in Pakistan, which long have been used to subjugate the minorities in the countries, is now being employed to silence women fighting for their rights.
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US rights commission calls on Pakistan to repeal blasphemy laws
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [US], March 31 (ANI): USCIRF Commissioner Johnnie Moore has asked Pakistan to repeal its blasphemy laws following a local court's decision to order a police probe against the organisers of a march marking International Women's Day over allegations they committed blasphemy.
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Pak court orders registration of FIR against Aurat March organisers for di
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 28 (ANI): A Pakistani court ordered registration of the First Information Report (FIR) against the organisers of this year's Aurat March in Islamabad for allegedly displaying "obscene posters" and making sacrilegious remarks against religious personalities.
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Bilawal slams misuse of Pak blasphemy laws to target Aurat March organiser
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 18 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday called the misuse of blasphemy laws to target Aurat March organisers as 'regrettable'.
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Pakistan's fight for gender equality amid COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): As crimes against women in Pakistan continues to mount, women across the country -- like every International Womens' Day -- would be staging an 'Aurat March' demonstrating against the atrocities that women face, but this time in a more curtailed setting d
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FIR registered against JUIF leader, 11 others for disturbing Aurat March i
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 9 (ANI): Islamabad's Koshar police have registered a First Information Report (FIR ) against Jamiat Ulema e-Islam (F) leader Maulana Abdul Majeed Hizravi and 11 other religious leaders for trying to disrupt Aurat March here.
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Islamabad's 'Aurat March' : Men pelted stones on participants
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 08 (ANI): A group of men pelted stones and attacked women participating in the "Aurat March" with sticks, here on Sunday.
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Aurat March: Women in Pakistan protest against violence, rape, honour kill
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], Mar 08 (ANI): So, they are marching. They are marching in Lahore and in many other Pakistani cities despite being threatened, abused and harassed on social media and otherwise. They are marching in Lahore holding placards with the picture of the late Asma Jehangir, an icon and
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