Nawaz, Zardari congratulate Sharmeen for winning Oscar

Author: Web Desk

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif Ali Zardari on Monday congratulated Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy over winning second Oscar award.

Nawaz and Zardari offered best wishes to the filmmaker for the future and admired her struggle for women rights. The 37-year-old director said that her second career Oscar for “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness.”

For the first time, she won the Oscar for short documentry “Saving Face” in 2012. The film examines the case of an 18-year-old Pakistani girl who survived a brutal attack by her father and uncle bent on an “honour killing.”

“A Girl in the River” is the latest in a series of socially charged investigative films from Obaid-Chinoy’s Karachi-based film company SOC Film. The Oscar winning documentary will broadcast on HBO on March 7.

After winning Oscar Award, she told that the prime minister vowed the change the rule f hounour killing in Pakistan.

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