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Captive at home

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By Rafia Zakaria
| Dawn Verified
“I FELT that my future was already ruined, the future of the children would also be ruined.” These are the words of a Frenchwoman named Sylvie Yasmina who was rescued along with her five children from a dilapidated dwelling in Bara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. When police got to the house, they found Sylvie and her children living in an unfinished, broken-down house with bruises all over their bodies.
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Not all men?

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By Rafia Zakaria
| Dawn Verified
EVER since Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, the world has turned very bleak for Afghan women. As they did when they first took power in the 1990s, the Taliban immediately set about erasing women from public spaces in Afghanistan. Deploying a self-serving interpretation of religion, they issued edicts requiring women to cover themselves completely in public and be constantly accompanied by a male guardian.
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Why more people are choosing to stay single

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By Rafia Zakaria
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
Each year, on Nov 11, the Chinese celebrate Singles’ Day — a tongue-in-cheek counterpoint to Valentine’s Day and its glorification of coupledom. The students who came up with it chose 11/11 as the date because it looks like a bunch of sticks — single people in Chinese slang. In commercial terms, the holiday grosses over $200 billion in consumer spending as there are special sales and products created to celebrate single people.
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