News PHILADELPHIA: Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban because she advocated education for girls, has won the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Yousafzai was just 15 when she was shot in the head while returning from school in Mingora, Pakistan, in October 2012 since arguing that girls should be allowed to pursue an education, which was hindered under the Talibaan."It's an honor to…

On June 6th 2014, the exiled leader of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement Party, Altaf Hussain, was released on bail by police in London after he was arrested and questioned on suspicion of money laundering. It is not the first time Hussain has been investigated by British authorities since his arrival in the country in 1992. In September 2010, Hussain was questioned after senior MQM leader Imran Farooq was murdered in…

Writings have circulated that review some of the recent Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) rules and issues promoted by some as "reducing the status of the female under the cover of religion and the name of Shar'a". These writings became the subject of controversy and skepticism. Such statements have been based on presenting contradictions of some Ahadeeth (the sayings of the Prophet (saw)) with the general representation of the status of women…

The extent which violence against women has reached in Turkey has driven even NGO's to make proposals which express their despair. Ultimately nobody in Turkey believes anymore that the policies regarding women, who are in need of protection, practised by the state so far, are sufficient. Moreover, everybody complains that none of the state's units fulfils its duties regarding the protection of women adequately As a result of this, at…