The author is a public speaker, author, women’s rights activist and the co-founder of the NGO Women’s Advancement Hub. Her writings have appeared in Dawn, The Express Tribune, the BBC, The Guardian and NPR, and she has two published books on feminism. She lives in Islamabad and tweets @AishaFsarwari.
When a Chief Justice tells a woman to shut her mouth, it is not just an insult to her — it is a verdict on every woman who has ever dared to stand tall in a country that insists she stay small.
Updated20 Sep, 202502:14pm
Mamdani is ready to pay the price for changing the narrative, and every family WhatsApp thread from Lyari to Kampala just got a little bolder, because he did.
Published12 Aug, 202512:16pm
Watch Zindagi Tamasha for its beautiful and enchanting scroll, watch it to humanise the damned, watch it for its heart-breaking humanity, but most importantly, watch it because a Pakistani has made some damn good art.
Updated28 Aug, 202304:19pm
This is not just any criminal case where the victim happened to be a woman. The choice of the crime rested upon the victim's gender.
Updated08 Feb, 202312:42pm
I’m advocating here for something very ordinary — to take the worst possible fallen woman this society hates to the core, and refuse to believe she deserves harm.
Published04 Oct, 202204:42pm
