Honouring Gaza’s women
Here in Gaza, we know who our oppressor is and who our heroes are. The Israeli occupation has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in the past…
Forgotten women
SEVENTY-SEVEN per cent of Pakistan’s more than 11 million farms are smaller than five acres, yet the country’s agricultural policies rarely reflect this reality. They fail to recognise that the…
GBV and women in Pakistan
THE 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence was initiated in 1991. Beginning each year on Nov 25 — International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women — and ending on Dec…
Unequal women
IN 25 years, Pakistan is projected to become the world’s third most populous country, a figure highlighted at the Dawn Population Summit held earlier in December. With a rising population,…
Supporting Afghan women
The tension between Kabul and Islamabad has created the impression that Pakistan has lost all allies in the landlocked country. It is claimed that Pakistan infuriated socialist and nationalist sections…
Forgotten women
I RECENTLY visited 66-year-old Dr Mubina Agboatwala, a respected paediatrician and founder of HOPE — a charity established over three decades ago — at the women’s prison inside Karachi Central…
AI is learning women, not just images
It began innocently, a viral ‘Saree Portrait’ trend sweeping through South Asia. Women across Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka uploaded their photos to AI apps that transformed them into…
Women in the centre
Pakistan is caught in a catastrophic flood crisis. In the riverine plains of Punjab and Sindh, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan northern valleys, monsoon rains and distended rivers have moved…
Floods leave women struggling in relief camps
In a former classroom, now a makeshift relief camp, pregnant women take refuge from the floods that have ravaged eastern Pakistan, their bodies aching, eyes heavy with exhaustion and silent…
Not a country for women
Last week, I wrote about the ‘tyranny of medieval practices’ in Pakistan, with specific reference to the killing of a woman and a man in a desolate region of Balochistan…
