Shazia Sultana is from Baldia. She has a great coordination with customers in her retail business. With the project activities for digital marketing she developed social media handles to expand her business online.

The colourful marriage ceremony of 30 destitute couples, brought together by poverty, was held at the YMCA Lawns on Saturday. The couples came from various coastal and rural areas around the city.

By Denise Nanni and Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik. In the following our interview with Sabiha Shah of the Women’s Development Foundation Pakistan (WDFP) struggling against female illiteracy and poverty in Pakistan. Women need education for their empowerment, and for the empowerment of their communities.

Walking into the narrow street of Jhaskani Muhalla near Grex stop on Hawke's Bay Road, you make your way through by jumping over overflowing gutters and puddles of sewage water in front of houses toppling over one another until you finally reach your destination; the Ladies Dhaba.

Most Dhabas are an exclusive domain for men who sip the rich sugary doodh patti as they chat away their day with their friends. However, a dhaba in a rundown Karachi locality has provided women with a place where they can relax in after a long day.

A group of 32 women and eight men from various parts of Sindh came to Ladies Dhaba, established at Mauripur Road here by the Women Development Foundation (WDFP) for women of the area to eat, play and relax. The visit was a part of an exchange program between Thardeep Rural Development Program (TRDP) and Women Development Foundation Pakistan, who had agreed to bring these skilled women in the Metropolis so that they could check the markets here and upgrade their products and services according to the current market demands.

At Pakistan's largest truck terminal in this city, drivers sip hot tea at a small roadside stall called a "dhaba" in between their shifts. The patrons share a common gender — only men are served at the hundreds of thousands of dhabas across Pakistan. But just a short motorbike ride away, I find something interesting. On a narrow street on the outskirts of Karachi, I enter a two-story building and climb the stairs. A banner reads: "Welcome to the Ladies Dhaba.".