The latest Census information shows the largest ethnic group in Normanton and Arboretum wards is Asian, with Islam the most ...

Shabana Mahmood has become the first female Muslim Home Secretary of the United Kingdom. Of Pakistani origin, her views on ...

Sadaf Jaffer has always felt drawn to public service, but she didn’t think that would ever lead to a term as mayor of her hometown, Montgomery Township. She is now the first female South Asian mayor ...

(RNS) — 'I hope my example helps provide a different vision of what it means to be a Muslim woman in America today,' she says. (RNS) — Last month, Sadaf Jaffer was sworn in as mayor of Montgomery ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — An artist is blazing her own trail through patriarchy in the world of music. She’s billed as the first female rapper from her home country of Pakistan. Los Angeles-based music ...

U.S.-based RASA Film Group is launching a film collective at the Sundance Film Festival. The collective is actively exploring projects featuring strong female protagonists, narratives centered around ...

[cnnvideo url=’http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/10/10/sayah-2011-interview-malala-yousufzai.cnn’ inline=’true’] Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A ...

The latest title character of "Ms. Marvel" is built around the superhero alter ego of an absent-minded adolescent superfan, Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American girl who inherits some very unexpected ...

Women in Karachi, Pakistan, protest a recent hijab ban in some colleges in the Indian state of Karnataka on Feb. 13. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters) Muskan Khan, a 19-year-old college girl from the Indian ...