Pakistan Gender News Gender News From Pakistan

Is making oneself heard as a woman challenging? It certainly is! Is that an obstacle though? Certainly not! It is an opportunity to say the least, a chance to voice what keeps you back and to help that change with ...

Feminism is still a taboo in Pakistan. Anyone who claims to relate with the ideals of feminism is met with ridicule or worse, suspicion. The overwhelmingly negative response to the recently held ‘Aurat March’ in various parts of the country ...

A concerted socio-political struggle for the reclamation of the rights of women and other marginalized genders, leading to their emancipation from a lop-sided order and an explicitly/implicitly violent state of affairs, is a dire need of the hour in Pakistan. ...

[Continued from ‘Aqleemas’ revolt in the arid land’ (March 12, 2019). The readers are advised to first read ‘I am a woman born of a woman’] We now move on to another poem, ‘I am a woman born of a ...

A lot of us of the male variety are mad at the boorish tone of placards displayed during Aurat March 2019 or for them being audacious, obnoxious, and lacking reverence for established cultural norms. It is curious that many who ...