Aisha Sarwari
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.
Updated 28 Aug, 2023 04:19pm
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.
Updated 08 Feb, 2023 12:42pm
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.
Published 04 Oct, 2022 04:42pm
We have to keep her alive in other ways beyond the analog world we belong to. The new children deserve her.
Published 22 Aug, 2022 12:57pm
Everything they tell you about the journey being more important is untrue. It is all about crossing that finish line.
Updated 11 Aug, 2022 12:47pm
This was another case of a man thinking he needed to show a woman her place, and things got out of hand.
Published 27 Jul, 2021 06:02pm
Aisha Sarwari writes of her husband’s life, and her own, while the book came into being.
Published 25 Aug, 2020 12:57pm
It is worth repeating that when there is a sexual assault, it is important to report the crime.
Updated 08 Jul, 2020 11:02am
Mental health helplines or food distribution schemes for a few communities may not cut it for a nation of 220 million.
Updated 18 Jun, 2020 10:13pm
As letters fly back and forth, a simple friendship turns obsessive
Updated 25 Apr, 2017 11:55pm
The responsibility does not lie on our shoulders — or our dupattas.
Updated 02 Jul, 2016 02:18pm
Until the state does not take action against these self-styled courts, our Ambreens will keep getting murdered.
Updated 06 May, 2016 05:23pm
Until the child in Larkana gets justice, her ordeal is one that will haunt this country.
Updated 10 Mar, 2016 04:05pm
How about managing the perversion of love better, Mr. President?
Updated 15 Feb, 2016 11:23am
What a tragedy that the very body that has a contract to look out for the life of its citizens turns on its citizens.
Updated 03 Feb, 2016 02:50pm
Penalising students over Facebook posts creates such a broad brush of control that it simply cannot be legal.
Published 08 Jan, 2016 02:19pm
The least we can do is identify and castigate men who create hurdles for women everywhere.
Updated 30 Nov, 2015 02:52pm
Men are free to act out because society recognises their passions.
Updated 07 Nov, 2015 05:34pm
Women shouldn’t have to return to work with their post-birth stitches just 10 days after delivery, like I did.
Updated 09 Oct, 2015 12:20pm
All such attacks on women tell them; scream to them, rather, that this is their real place – cloaked and invisible.
Updated 17 Sep, 2015 04:46pm
