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…
Talking about women’s sexuality has always been taboo in this world as if women are not normal as other humans are, but some grave expectations adhere to their existence. Talking about women’s health crisis or anything related to know about women’s body has always been encountered with shut up calls, all justified in the notion…
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…
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…
Great people keep coming to this mortal universe. They live a life full of purposes. Dr Ruth is one of those brilliant minds & captivating sea-shores who lived for humanity. She was a medical doctor of leprosy. She moved from Germany’s luxurious place to arduous, pathetic, and poor places of Pakistan to treat the spreading…
