The writer is the author of 'Faith and Feminism in Pakistan; Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy.
Reflection on our own strategies, unpacking our class prejudices and a candid drafting of a sexual code of conduct are imperatives for success of...
The next few years of activism are likely to be marked by women’s empowerment that searches for rights beyond livelihood and basic needs, and...
The political mudslinging across the issue of women’s harassment is a sad mirror of our gender and class biases, and exposes the predatory male...
The legacy of Qandeel Baloch is not simply that she flung the doors of debate around Pakistani female sexuality wide open but that she demonstrably...
If policies are to be made to improve lives, the census must be complemented by socio-political and ethnic realities
If we allow more witch-hunts like that of Mashal’s, we will have nothing left to blame but the fact that we lost the opportunity to close this...
Why is peaceful Sindh discontented and being taken over by illiberal forces? Because both the MQM and PPP have lost the battle in the province
Fata deserves better than a repetition of Pakistan’s postcolonial mistakes
The purported outrage of the former head of UNDP Pakistan over what he considers to be the causes of Pakistan’s mal-development is a case of...
Another Edhi would be a miracle but fighting for his legacy need not be
