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Women in the Pakistan Armed Forces are the female officers who serve in the Pakistan Armed Forces. [1] [2] Women have been taking part in Pakistani military since 1947, after the establishment of Pakistan. In 2006, the first women fighter pilot batch joined the combat aerial mission command of PAF. [3] [4] The Pakistan Navy prohibits women from ...
— 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 ...
Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Military) Lieutenant General Nigar Johar Khan HI (M) TI (M) ( Urdu: نگار جوہر) is a retired three-star general in the Pakistan Army. [2] Nigar is the first and only woman in the history of Pakistan Army to reach the rank of lieutenant-general, [3] [4] and the third to reach the rank of major ...
The Pakistan Army ( Urdu: پاکستان فوج, romanized : Pākistān Fãuj, pronounced [ˈpaːkɪstaːn faːɔːdʒ] ), commonly known as the Pak Army ( Urdu: پاک فوج, romanized : Pāk Fãuj) is the land service branch and the largest component of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The president of Pakistan is the supreme commander of the army.
During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, members of the Pakistani military and Razakar paramilitary force raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women and girls in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. Most of the rape victims of the Pakistani Army and its allies were Hindu women.
Ukraine shows better results in military gender equality than countries like Norway (7%) or United Kingdom (9%). There are few female high officers, 2.9% (1,202 women), [103] with a dozen female colonels as of 2010 [105] and the first female general appointed in October 2018. [106]
Sinf-e-Aahan ( Urdu: صنف آہن, lit. 'Women of Steel') is a Pakistani television series produced by Next Level Entertainment and Six Sigma Plus in collaboration with ISPR. It is directed by Nadeem Baig and written by Umera Ahmad. The serial stars Sajal Aly, Kubra Khan, Yumna Zaidi, Ramsha Khan and Syra Yousuf.
In October 1947, armed Pashtun tribesmen from Pakistan, who had support from the Pakistani administration and Army, invaded Kashmir and committed atrocities such as raping and looting the locals, including Muslim girls, during the beginning of First Kashmir War. They took place in and around Muzaffarabad and Baramulla.