Dream of quality education for girls in periphery on June 29, 2020Sometimes statistics hidden within the statistics reveal quite a strange story. The real situation of peripheral areas is often tone downed in aggregated statistics. Marred with an unpleasant record, Pakistan continues to fail to bring a halt to its increasing female drop out rate in the education sector. A well research report by a civil […]
In Defense of Aurat March on March 8, 2020Met with controversy, Aurat March has been viewed as a platform tainted with the wrong image than its initial purpose that being of channeling the spirit of equality. This being a direct result of a media that likes to turn spurring activism into attention by portraying an image likely to gain negative connotations. Aurat March […]
Women in Justice Sector on August 22, 2019Today Pakistani women are opting for more challenging and unconventional professions. Traditionally practicing law has been considered a male domain in the sociology of ‘thana-kachehri’ (police station-court) dominated by male litigants. It is pleasant to see that the culture is changing though at a very slow pace. One can find women practicing law and pleading […]
Shaping Pakistan; Women changingthe political dynamics on January 7, 2019Census 2017 in Pakistan makes us realize that actually we are less than 50 percent but our impact is much larger on the polity. The often-romanticized role of women in the lives of powerful men has over shadowed the efforts of potent women. Particularly when we talk about history we read about the male-stream perspective […]
Privatisation of rights on December 6, 2018While celebrating 70-year of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), it is important to realize that human rights are not a charity or a favour. Rather they are intrinsic to our existence as temporal beings. Religions acknowledge them, intellectual thoughts nourish them, civilization nurture and evolve them and constitutions codify them. However societies have mixed […]