Jailed Aasia Bibi ‘well’: Husband
LAHORE: Â A Christian mother sentenced to death for blasphemy last year is “well” and faces “no threat in jail”, her husband told AFP Wednesday, rejecting recent claims of her poor health. “She is...
View ArticleBibi Dow of Kalash forced to leave home
PESHAWAR: The locals call her Bibi Dow – because it is easy to pronounce – but for the 75-year-old social worker Maureen Lines, life has been anything but for the past few years. On the pretext of...
View ArticleBibi Dow’s plea: British Pakistani asks for Imran’s help in protecting Kalash...
PESHAWAR: By the time Maureen Lines was granted Pakistani citizenship in 2004, it had been two decades since she had left the comfort of North London for the lush greens of the Kalash valleys in...
View ArticleAn unfulfilled promise: History will remember Gullana Bibi for daring to dream
DI KHAN: None of the handful of women who vied to contest last year’s general elections in defiance of tribal traditions were able to win from their respective seats. Perhaps this is why when Gullana...
View ArticleBibi doesn’t deny scolding Kerry
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not deny a report that he told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro “not to ever second guess me again” on how to...
View ArticleIn life and death, Riasat Bibi comes to the aid of her family
CHARSADDA: It was a typical story. Man marries his daughter to his brother’s son to keep it in the family. Over the decades, the husband worked the fields while the wife had two jobs—to put together...
View ArticleCourt upholds death penalty of Aasia Bibi
LAHORE: A court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of a Christian women convicted of blasphemy four years ago, as her lawyers vowed to appeal. Aasia Bibi, a mother of five, has been on death row...
View ArticleAsia Bibi losing hope on death row: family
LAHORE: Christian woman condemned to death four years ago for blasphemy is losing hope that she will be freed or pardoned, her husband, who lives in hiding because of his wife’s conviction, told AFP...
View ArticleWomen at work: The Moor Bibi of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
SHABQADAR: History bulges with the names of men considered to be behind many great and vile acts—a masculine mass which squarely squashes down the ‘second sex’. Over the decades, women fought for and...
View ArticleAasia Bibi makes final appeal on death row conviction
LAHORE: A Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy filed an appeal in the country’s top court on Monday, her final legal recourse after being found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammed...
View ArticleSuper Woman: 132 or 96, Basra Bibi lives on with the spirit of a fighter
ABBOTABAD: Walking cattle on hilly terrains might be a tedious routine for some; for 132-year-old Basri Bibi, this labour of youth has come to her aid, in the form of longevity. According to her...
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