Sometimes 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
Met 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
Today 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
Census 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
While 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 […]