In Pakistan from the bustling cities to quiet rural areas, a force is steadily driving change. The Citizens Foundation (TCF), and, TCF-USA, are transforming the lives of underprivileged children, ...

I am surrounded by women in my French literature class, physiology class and pre-medical club meetings. I feel at home, like I belong. I am 19 years old, and when I say I am a student and plan to be ...

In August 2012, after returning to Pakistan from a high school exchange program in the United States, I started an evening learning center in my neighborhood on the outskirts of Pakistan’s ...

Pakistani religious scholars declared that banning girls’ education in Afghanistan has no religious basis, urging the Kabul administration to immediately reopen schools for female students.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Humaira Bachal knows firsthand how lack of education hurts her community. She had a cousin that died because his mother couldn’t read the expiration date on a bottle of ...

In honor of Malala Yousefzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for her advocacy for girls’ education, the Georgetown University South Asian Society sponsored a fundraising gala ...

Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan families have fled to neighboring Pakistan. Some escaped their homeland so that their daughters could continue their education, ...

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" ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai called on Muslim leaders to reject and resist the Afghan Taliban’s restrictions ...