ISLAMABAD -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders not to "legitimize" the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan and instead to "raise their voices" and "use [their] power" ...

A Pakistani high court has ordered the restoration of a police case against a Muslim man accused of abducting, forcibly ...

Shahida Bibi, a Pakistani Christian girl, was only 11 years old when her mother left her father for a Muslim man and handed over her daughter to her new husband’s brother. “He basically kept her as a ...

Nicolas Levrat, U.N. special rapporteur on minority issues, addresses a side-event of U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on ...

Pakistani Christians have expressed concern and unease over a recent court verdict regarding the marriage of a Christian girl to a Muslim man. Many within the Christian community consider such cases ...

Pakistan’s Federal Constitutional Court has upheld the legal validity of a controversial marriage between a Christian woman and a Muslim man, in a case where Christian leaders claimed the woman was ...

Islamabad: A summit was organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. The summit focused on improving girls’ education in Muslim-majority countries, ...

The sight of a woman riding a motorcycle through the streets was once enough to turn heads in Pakistan, a conservative Muslim ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally has been accused of sending a 'deeply troubling message' by posing next to the fully-covered wife of Islamic cleric Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi.

There is very little distance between Tehran and Islamabad — when the law, tradition and religion, instead of protecting women, become structures for their oppression. The murders of two young girls, ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard Laiba Rashid is a 22-year-old Pakistani student in a special training program in the city of Lahore. The program, ...