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Giant leap for womankind

Well, When you are used to living behind a veil, opening a store for your business isn’t going to happen. This is why women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have gone online. Take for example, Abida Jillani, who is a pioneer of home-based exhibitions. She runs a home-based shop called Durshal , which means “doorstep”. She started it 15 years ago and now, with the help of the internet, has a whole new client base: women who tend to stay at home. After her husband died, Jillani said that instead of staying home and wallowing in self-pity, she decided to work and support her family. She learnt how to sew and, with Rs5,000, started a business. She now holds exhibitions across the province. “A woman is soft, like a butterfly’s wings, and fine like steel. Once she blooms everyone will realize her true potential,” she says. Some areas as perfect for investment because they are considered the domain of women: bridal clothes, embroidery, block-printing, quilts and bed linen are some produ

2nd Martyrdom of Shaheed Burhan Muzaffar Wani..!!

It was a day when crackers were already bursting loudly on the afternoon of 8 July, 2016, the third of Shawaal. People were planning the weekend out. But when the sun began to slump, the cracking explosions mixed with a razzmatazz of gunshots in South Kashmir’s area of Kokarnaag, some 60 kilometers away from Srinagar—the summer capital of Indian side of Kashmir. On this Day, Around 8:00 pm, television channels in New Delhi broke news, “Top Hizbul Commander Burhan Killed in Jammu and Kashmir: Police”. In a few seconds the news of Burhan’s killing became viral on social media. People glued to their TV sets to know the details. Later, A photograph of his dead body lying on a stretcher spread like wildfire on the internet. The slain in the picture didn’t properly resemble the lively and fair-faced Burhan of the Facebook pictures he and his lovers had always posted. His prominent black beard was trimmed to stubble against the contrast of his face that now looked a bit sallow.