Kozhikode: Purdah or nikab resorted to by some Muslim women has become an issue at several polling booths. Election officials at polling booths in Malabar wanted women wearing purdah to lift the veil ...

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This piece originally appeared on asiasociety.org. My first sense as a young girl of sexual menace came from my Indian grandfather. Let me be clear: He never even remotely sexually threatened or ...

With just 48 hours until the polls open for the 2024 general election, it is full steam ahead for the main political party leaders. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will campaign in the south-east of ...

Human Rights Initiative, a civil rights organisation, has petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), regarding the disenfranchisement of some Muslim women in Purdah during the ...

Parliament was officially dissolved at midnight, which means we are now in a pre-election period known as purdah. The term "purdah", which derives from Urdu and Persian and means "curtain", describes ...

To block any new or controversial government initiatives which could be seen to be advantageous to any candidates or parties in the forthcoming election, or which may commit any incoming new ...

Queens, courtiers and colonial officials all grappled with a custom that blurred the line between protection and power ...

Raoof Hasan, special assistant to Imran Khan, responds to criticism of the Pakistani prime minister’s remarks on women and sexual assault Much is being made of comments by Pakistan’s prime minister, ...

Pakistan’s balance of payments problems have clear microeconomic roots in an economy where inefficient resource allocation and a failure to attract new investment are undermining export ...

Based on a qualitative survey of female office workers conducted in Lahore in 1996-97, this article examines the increasing market integration of women, particularly from the lower middle classes, ...