Justice Nasira Javaid is now retired as an icon of women rebels. She had a mother who was a legendary philanthropist and a force in the Pakistan independence movement. It was going to be unlikely that a woman with a women role model like her...
1976 film actress Shubnum Ghosh’s house was broken and entered into and a “dacoity” took place. This is a euphemism for rape. In that pre #metoo era this popular Bangladeshi film actress who made Lahore her home and Lollywood her profession lived on in Lahore....
What would it take for a modern Sufi to lose his optimism? A lot, it seems. Raza Rumi has published yet another book called, Being Pakistani, and it has three things that will come in handy this post-election season: the effortlessness and readability with which...
Review of Red Birds Author: Mohammad Hanif Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2018 Red Birds is about the destruction that inevitably follows love. Many say this Mohammad Hanif novel is an anatomy of the wars men wage and the carcasses of pain women and their children must sweep up, each with...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu_HdhUmnEI Aisha Sarwari, Co-founder of Women's Advancement Hub (WAH) talks to BBC World about women in Pakistan balancing family and work. The challenge remains for working women that as they feel financially strained, they have few safeguards from employers. Whereas the law mandates 3 months of paid...
Jirgas are 400-year old patriarchal systems that punish women routinely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu2hoGLsU2I...
On @BBCWorld Facebook live on why Valentine's Day is not the states business. The ban on valentines is an attempt to control and repress women's sexuality. https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/10154398657882217/...
Aisha Sarwari speaks on BBC Urdu for a special series on honour killing called #Qatloghairat https://business.facebook.com/bbcurdu/videos/1367506823290947/...
I come on at 7:30 minutes on the anti-honour killing bill. @BBCUrdu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17fa0fU6SgY ...