This is a contemporary fictional account of a woman based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who lost her friends to ‘honour’ killing. Eavesdropping. Yes, eavesdropping. Amongst other good and bad habits, I love this one. I worship this habit. You know why? It has fathomed the door of knowing, learning, understanding and reacting for me. My mother…
Aurat march is that time of the year when the regressive patriarchal forces are increasingly visible in Pakistan. Their mission? To stop women from sponsoring immorality in our very own Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The Islamic Society in which daughters are not given their due share in inheritance, where wives are beaten up, sometimes murdered…
The pens that wrote history have always been in the hands of men. When these pens were scribbling ink on parchments, they forgot something very basic and very crucial; they forgot to write about their women. So much has been the affair to invisiblize the existence of women and confining them to the mere roles…
Aurat March has become a voice of the voiceless women in Pakistani who have been exploited, harassed, subjected to violence. This part of our population is amongst the subaltern in the social sphere, and yet makes more than 50% of people in this country. The passage through the ages has a new tern on the…
The Pakistani Aurat is in feist to get what she wants, ready to step out of the safety of her house and join her female-counterparts in seemingly endless conversations and efforts over what the new season will bring. This is the mood that rightfully marks the beginning of a Pakistani Spring. It’s not just to…
In the aftermath of a peaceful march against sexual harassment organized by students of Islamia legal Fraternity society on 11 March 2020, students have faced backlash and intimidation by the faculty and administration of the Islamia College Peshawar. Our correspondent talked to Maimoona Zeb, President of Islamia legal Fraternity. Maimoona Zeb told The Student’s Herald…
Patriarchal dogma hinders women’s progress by deeming them lesser, weaker, and at times, impure. Nature has bestowed the female body with an amazing ability to breed life. And with life comes blood. Most women bleed or have bled at some time in their life. And yet, menstruation which is the experience of more than half…
With the Aurat March in sight, the message it symbolises is hard to grasp in our social setting, and its acceptance would remain scant for the time being. For anyone who has read history critically, the reason for this reluctance and hostility towards Aurat March is rather straightforward. The freedom of women, being a concomitant…
