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Women make inroads in Pakistan as they become firefighters and barriers slowly fall

  • Masooma Zaidi is one of 50 women firefighters in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province
  • Another 180 are training as rescue divers, ambulance medics and emergency responders
By AP ·

At a pumpkin festival near Berlin, powerful women take shape — one gourd at a time

By AP ·
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Stitching freedom: How Hindu women in Sindh are tailoring a future beyond poverty

By Ismail Dilawar ·
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A room of one’s own: Women claim men-only ‘Autaq’ community spaces in Pakistan’s Balochistan

By NAIMAT KHAN ·
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‘It’s a no-brainer to go where the progress is,’ Fortune editor-in-chief tells Arab News ahead of Riyadh summit on women in business

By Zaira Lakhpatwala ·

Pakistan’s women ‘Rowdy Riders’ take on traffic and tradition

By AFP ·
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Pakistani woman with congenital hand deformity stitches her future, piece by piece

By RANA MALHI ·

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Meta partners with Pakistan's central bank to train 500 women entrepreneurs, small businesses

By Arab News Pakistan ·
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In southern Pakistan, marginalized women seek empowerment through home ownership

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
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‘A revolution:’ In a first for Pakistan, woman becomes chief of Sindh's Soho tribe

By NAIMAT KHAN ·

Fines for offices in Pakistan’s Peshawar that fail to set up anti-harassment committees

By Arab News Pakistan ·
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‘Raised as commandos’: Pakistani sisters brave ridicule, gender bias to pursue competitive weightlifting

By SUMEERA RIAZ ·
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In Pakistan’s Balochistan, one woman grows her ice cream business, scoop by creamy scoop

By SAADULLAH AKHTER ·

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Mistreating women – Pakistan’s lasting shame
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