When WAR first started out in 1989, it operated mainly as a pressure group. Being a brainchild of Women’s Action Forum (WAF) to combat injustices meted out to women in the form of rape and sexual harassment, WAR became (and remains) the only organization all over Pakistan dealing with the issues of rape other forms of sexual abuse specifically.
In the yesteryears, one could find WAR in the press with an outstanding regularity. One favored form of putting pressure on the government and those who abused authority to suppress women was putting items in the newspapers and elsewhere, to strongly protest against the rising trend of abuse of women. One of these abuses was in the form of the intolerably cruel Hudood Ordinances. Galvanizing the power of the press, WAR took on the task of religiously opposing the Ordinances with full force, a battle that is on going.

In the links below, one can find information on how WAR used the fettered press to wage a war against the most tragic laws ever to grace the statute of Pakistan.

• WAR in the press - 2008
• WAR in the press - 2007
• WAR in the press - 2006
• WAR in the press - 2005
• WAR in the press - 2004
• WAR in the press - 2003
• WAR in the press - 2002
• WAR in the press - 2001