Imagine being sick but having to wait for your wife to come home to take you to the doctor. It seems ridiculous when the roles are reversed, but it is the reality for seven out of 10 women in Pakistan, according to Accountability Labs. Only 30pc of the women in Pakistan are ‘allowed’ to go to bazaars or visit health services alone.

The statistics, drummed into consciousness time and again by woke voices, are perpetually ignored by the masses across the spectrum. Once, in an interview, Sima Kamil, deputy governor of SBP, admitted that one of her career’s biggest challenges was pseudo-liberals. Such men have posh degrees and profess to be open-minded and forward-thinking but are at best chauvinistic, at worst misogynistic., at their core.

In a country where the right to decide who touches one’s body is denied to females, a university degree is a laughably high aspiration which is probably why 99 out of 100 women cannot attain higher education.

Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, March 13th, 2023