It wasn’t long ago when Pakistan’s parliament passed the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) in 2016. Peca is a set of laws which supporters contended would restrict online extremist content, hate speech, and curb online harassment of women.  After ... Read More »

The 21-year-old Karishma Ali became the first girl from Chitral to play sports on both the national as well as international level and made it to Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list. Karishma is the founder of the Chitral Women’s Sports ... Read More »

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded on Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their 2012 work on Crispr-Cas9, a method to edit DNA. The announcement marks the first time the award has gone to two women. Emmanuelle Charpentier and ... Read More »

Marvel has reportedly cast its first Muslim superhero for Disney+ series Ms Marvel. Iman Vellani, 18, will star in the TV show as Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager based in New Jersey who moonlights as superhero Ms Marvel. In 2014, Kamala became the first Muslim character to ... Read More »