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— Malala Yousafzai, 24 January 2009 BBC blog entry In February 2009, girls' schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an "eerie silence". She wrote in her blog: "We ...
Searching for a potential groom or bride (رشتہ تلاش کرنا) is the first step of traditional Pakistani marriages. Beyond age 20, both men and women are considered potential grooms and brides. Most marriages in Pakistan are traditional arranged marriages, semi-arranged marriages or love marriages. Arranged marriage occurs when a member ...
Bilquis Bano Edhi HI (Urdu: بلقیس ایدھی; 14 August 1947 – 15 April 2022) was a Pakistani nurse who helped save the lives of over 16,000 children. [2] During her career as a nurse and marriage to Abdul Sattar Edhi, she was one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan. She was the co-chair of the Edhi Foundation, a charity ...
142th out of 146 (2023) Women in Pakistanmake up 48.76% of the population according to the 2017 census of Pakistan.[3] Women in Pakistan have played an important role in Pakistani history[4]and have had the right to vote since 1956.[5] In Pakistan, women have held high office including Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Assembly, Leader of ...
The Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929. Child marriage in Pakistan is legally prohibited to an extent under the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929 (No XIX). Under the Act, the minimum age for marriage was 18 years for a male and 16 years for a female (section 2). [16] However, under a new bill passed in Pakistani Senate, the minimum age of ...
Shah was a contributing opinion writer from 2013-2015 for the International New York Times [6] and an op-ed columnist for Dawn, [7] a newspaper in Pakistan published in Karachi. Currently she also writes a column for the Books and Authors section of the Dawn. She has written for Al Jazeera, [8] The Huffington Post, [9] The Guardian, [10] and ...
The total enrollment in primary public sector is 11,840,719; 57% (6,776,536) are boys, and 43% (5,064,183) are girls. 79% of all the primary students in Pakistan are enrolled in rural schools, and the gender enrollment ratios are 59% and 41% for boys and girls respectively in rural Pakistan. Private sector.
1968. Har Gobind Khorana. (born in Raipur, Punjab Province, British India) United States. Physiology or Medicine. Awarded along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg – "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis." [5] 1983. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.