Published in Dawn on November 03, 2025 WOMEN shoulder the overwhelming majority of unpaid domestic and care work, a new report by the ILO has revealed. According to the labour body, of the 117.4m Pakistanis engaged in such work, nearly 67m are women. They cook, clean, tend livestock, and look after children, the elderly, and the sick […]
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NovAzadeh Moshiri Published in bbc.com on November 02, 2025 Rescuers and relatives searched knee-deep in water for the body of one-year-old Zara. She’d been swept away by flash floods; the bodies of her parents and three siblings had already been found days earlier. “We suddenly saw a lot of water. I climbed up to the roof and[…]
By Zofeen T. Ebrahim Published in Dawn on October 30, 2025 IN PAKISTAN, the wealthiest 10 per cent hold 42pc of the national income — lower than the average across major Asian economies, but still enough to create massive inequalities that make it impossible to build fair or sustainable societies. This is one of the findings of[…]
