In Pakistan, women find their place between reverence and repression. They are hailed as the “light of the home,” yet denied the right to decide how that light should shine. The problem is not only one of inequality but of perception, a culture that glorifies womanhood in poetry and crushes it in practice. According to […]
women in Pakistan
Women’s safety
Disturbingly frequent reports in the press about women and girls being subjected to sexual assault and harassment show that the state continues to fail in it’s duty to protect female citizens. Most recently, a victim of harassment and groping opened up about her experience at a music festival in Lahore. The young woman alleges that […]
Policies for growth & employment
The main focus of a rational tax policy should be on incentivising investment and productivity, encouraging savings and facilitating capital formation in the private sector for job creations, innovations and rapid economic development. Our policymakers have miserably failed to achieve these goals-for them taxation means raising money and nothing else. Overemphasis on regressive taxation by […]
Mehwish asks ‘what gives anybody the right to drag my name into the gutter?’
Singer and philanthropist Shehzad Roy has come out in support of actress Mehwish Hayat, whose Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) award stirred a controversy online recently. “People waste no opportunity to tear down the arts and women in Pakistan. So of course, if a woman wins an award in the arts, all hell would break loose,” […]