ISLAMABAD - PTI government launches "BAYTEE" App for women empowerment in country through technology. The Ministry of Information Technology has launched a mobile app “BAYTEE” to empower Pakistani women by using technology. The mobile app will guide and provide information to the women ...

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Information Minster Fayaz-ul-Hassan Chohan here said that to empower women is Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s top priority. Women participation in all sectors or their economic participation is very necessary for success of the country, he told APP. He said that ...

ISLAMABAD - Historic legislation is on cards for woman in Pakistan. Women in Pakistan may soon be able to divorce their husbands without going to courts. Although this provision is part of marriage document or Nikahnama under the current Pakistani law, it is almost never offered to a ...

ISLAMABAD:Prime Minster Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that government will continue assisting programs aimed at poverty reduction and imparting suitable skills to people for employment.     He was addressing the launching ceremony of Graduation Program and Endowment Fund of Benazir ...

ISLAMABAD:President Mamnoon Hussain has launched National Socio-Economic Registry Programme of Benazir Income Support Programme aimed at widening social safety network.     He launched the programme at a ceremony held in Islamabad on Thursday to mark completion of ten years of ...

ISLAMABAD:Asian Development Bank has appreciated different initiatives of Benazir Income Support Programme and acknowledged its efforts for graduating vulnerable women out of poverty. Talking to Secretary BISP Omar Hamid Khan in Islamabad, Director General ADB Werner E. Liepach assured full support ...

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak says the provincial government has drafted a policy for empowerment and socio-economic development of women.Addressing a seminar in Peshawar today (Wednesday), he said the cabinet has approved the draft of an amendment in Women Protection Act to ...

ISLAMABAD: Mushaal Yasin Malik, the wife of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik on Wednesday called on the Omar Hamid Khan to congratulate him on his appointment as Secretary BISP.During the meeting held at BISP headquarters, the collaboration between Mushaal Malik and BISP was discussed with focus on ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister's Youth Programme is focusing on women empowerment through their financial support and other incentives for their uplift in the society.According to Radio Pakistan quoting official sources that under Prime Minister's Youth Business Loan Scheme, 50 percent loans were ...

RIYADH - Hunched over platters of dates and Arabic coffee, Saudi women raring to drive once a government ban ends next June signed up for another revolution -- to be the kingdom's first female cab drivers.King Salman last month decreed that women will be allowed driving permits, a historic reform ...