Hardly a day goes by without a headline featuring a woman being killed in Pakistan. Oft-reported cases include violence committed in the name of ‘honour’. Indeed, many don’t even make it to news reports. According to Human Rights Watch, around 1,000 Pakistani women are annually murdered in the name of ‘honour’. The causes behind these […]
The “endemic” of male ‘egocentric’ dominance has now firmly given way to the “epidemic” of male barbarism in the land where only the externally pure are Pak, notwithstanding our impure souls within! After decades of confining women to so called traditional roles, without ever understanding the glorious traditions from our own legacy – which boasts […]
In a recent interview with an American journalist, Prime Minister Imran Khan made highly controversial remarks about the causes of rape, that provoked severe criticism from civil society groups. To analyse whether the reaction was justified, let’s look closely at what he said. The PM first said that by ‘purdah’ he did not mean the […]