Siraj Zaheer is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague.
Students at two public universities in northwestern Pakistan are speaking out against conservative dress codes that ban women from wearing jeans, tights, and makeup while requiring men not to wear earrings, torn jeans, or shorts.
In a sign that a restive northwestern Pakistani region is recovering from decades of sectarian unrest, hundreds of displaced Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim families have begun returning to their homes.
