My experience of supporting a sexual assault survivor and reporting the crime
It is worth repeating that when there is a sexual assault, it is important to report the crime.
Aisha Sarwari
Telcos may have practical solutions for the poor to navigate the Covid-19 crisis. Here's how
Mental health helplines or food distribution schemes for a few communities may not cut it for a nation of 220 million.
FICTION: Lines in the sand
As letters fly back and forth, a simple friendship turns obsessive
Why women moral police women
The responsibility does not lie on our shoulders — or our dupattas.
The jirga that murdered Ambreen should be Pakistan's last
Until the state does not take action against these self-styled courts, our Ambreens will keep getting murdered.
Will the state ignore a raped, pregnant 13-year-old?
Until the child in Larkana gets justice, her ordeal is one that will haunt this country.
Avoiding love on Valentine's Day and other Pakistani stories
How about managing the perversion of love better, Mr. President?
PIA standoff: Classic PML-N — Doing the right thing the wrong way
What a tragedy that the very body that has a contract to look out for the life of its citizens turns on its citizens.
Expelled: Pakistan's dangerous campus censors
Penalising students over Facebook posts creates such a broad brush of control that it simply cannot be legal.
Sexually harassed at work? Meet the predators
The least we can do is identify and castigate men who create hurdles for women everywhere.
Set on fire: When no means death for Pakistani women
Men are free to act out because society recognises their passions.
How Pakistani organisations don't want to deal with pregnant professionals
Women shouldn’t have to return to work with their post-birth stitches just 10 days after delivery, like I did.
Why the Sahiwal stabbings are an attack on all Pakistani women
All such attacks on women tell them; scream to them, rather, that this is their real place – cloaked and invisible.
Blaming Sunny Leone: When politicians give green signals to rape
No amount of perceived or deliberate provocation can absolve a man for a breach of consent in the act of rape. None.
Public transport: Letting Pakistani women take back the wheel
For most women, using public transport is like stepping into a bin under a public hospital bed. It's time to change that
Of sexism and unflushed toilets: The Pakistani travelling experience
Wanderlust gets a kick in the shin in Pakistan.
When a poached lion gets more attention than the rape of a minor
There were no CM visits; no placard-holding, sloganeering NGO-aunties; not even an armchair jihad on Twitter.