Pakistani women 'must not hide'
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Concealing women in the home is a backward view of Islam, the leader of Pakistan tells the BBC.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court  urges the government to release people being held by  the intelligence agencies.
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About 150 women left a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital after the government set a deadline for surrender on Wednesday, but many more militant students remained inside, surrounded by hundreds of troops.
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Pakistani rights activists called on   the government on Sunday to suspend Islamic laws on rape and   adultery until controversy over them is settled.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Dec 02 (SADA) - Empowering women and taking preventive measures to fight against AIDS will stem spread of epidemic.
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Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, tells the world's media at a press conference in London that he fears more for his privacy than for his life
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A female survivor of Islamabad's Red Mosque siege says she was prepared to die to defend the mosque.
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Pakistan today denied a newspaper report the CIA has set up covert bases in the countryâs remote tribal regions to hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Relations with the Muslim community are made "more difficult" when women wear veils, Jack Straw says.
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Pakistan's top human rights organisation  calls for access to a tribal area where it accuses the army of abuses.
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Her followers are happy, but terrorists are gunning for her even as she seeks to work with Musharraf and the military
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 31 -- Pakistani authorities have pressured the medical personnel who tried to save Benazir Bhutto's life to remain silent about what happened in her final hour and have removed records of her treatment from the facility, according to doctors.
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PARIS, Dec. 27 On a hazy winter day in 1994, I drove with then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to the dedication of Pakistan's first women's police station. A controversial and bold initiative, it would be a place where Muslim women would feel more at ease discussing abuses like rape with female...
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A senior British cabinet minister said Muslim women who wore full veils made community relations "more difficult", sparking criticism on Friday from Islamic groups.
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Viewpoint: Politicians seeking to stop a small minority of Muslim women from wearing the veil in public are actually trying to send a harsh message to an embattled community
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 24 -- When gynecologist Samia al-Amoudi was found last year to have breast cancer, a disease that still carries an intense stigma in this conservative country where women are forced to cover in public, she decided to share the details in her newspaper column, shocking many...
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A Pakistani rape victim who became a prominent women's rights campaigner said on Thursday violence against women was increasing in Pakistan because authorities were not serious about punishing the perpetrators.