Published in Tribune here ISLAMABAD: The cause of feminism in the country is a fight because when women are being killed, raped, being led out of school, subjected to domestic violence and discrimination at work, it is indeed a fight. This was stressed by author Aisha Sarwari at...
Published by the News on Sunday here With the premise that resolving the big questions on women’s rights, the Pakistani society will be on a progressive trajectory, leading women feminists gathered here at a book launch on Saturday. Aisha Sarwari’s book, ‘Navigating Pakistani Feminism: Fight by Fight’,...
Publius Flavius cautioned us to prepare for war at a time of peace. The attack on Army Public School on December 16, 2014 is perhaps war for us as a daily presence, but how prepared are we against the thinking that perpetrates violence against children...
The average age of a class four child is 10, right when there can be an early onset of puberty. In Larkana, a girl child who was repeatedly raped by her male teacher got her pregnant. These are the facts of the case. Other details can...
The caged bird was banned by the Taliban back in the day because probably its chirps would awaken life and the desire of life among men who should be only thinking of the fire of hell in the afterlife. Now President Mamnoon Hussain, in what...
Macheavelli said it is better to be feared than loved. The current government must have made this a mantra. First it threatened to imprison any of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees who participated in any of the planned strikes against the ongoing push to...
Even in the most elite hotels and accommodations where politicians and intellectual royalty are in attendance the security protocols are laughable. I know exactly when the personnel are at their least effective: who takes off for long prayer breaks and who is really slow in...
Mumtaz Qadri is now very scared. He appealed the courts to spare his life for taking the life of Punjab’s sitting Governor, Salman Taseer in 2011. He is missing spine because he claimed that by killing Taseer he was serving God who would obviously keep...
If I had a magic wand, I would wave it over the hard working women of Pakistan so they walk the earth with the confidence of the mediocre Pakistani man. It’s endemic: women’s constant addiction to underselling themselves. Women at a performance of 99% will...
We were never good at taking rejection as a people, but as men, Pakistanis don’t even make it passably human. They retaliate with counter accusations and if that does not match the insult their deified egos faced, they resort to violence. Sometimes even violence is...