#HumToo Prime Minister Imran Khan’s persistent peddling of the myth that women’s bodies compel helpless brown men to commit sex crimes has drawn international ignominy but has resonated domestically with pious conservatives. While his views ...
It’s been a K.K. Aziz-ian year for education in Pakistan. The policy of theocratizing education through the Single National Curriculum; the purging of ‘unIslamic’ material by the Punjab Textbook Board; the institutionalizing of Sufi sciences; ...
The immediate hot takes that were ricocheting across social media right after the death of Khadim Hussain Rizvi, leader of the Tehreek e Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), revealed a persisting unrest amongst progressive thinkers in Pakistan. ...
6SharesThe dual ways in which women’s bodies are culturally treated include, fetishizing or commodifying; which turns women into objects to be covered and coveted and; sexualising, which limits women’s roles to servicing male entitlement. Both ...
Successively, the shifts in contexts reveal how the sentiment of injury has rescinded from a prerogative that minorities could claim as victims of majoritarianism. Today, those belonging to the majority religion claim injury and victimization ...
Last week, a group of Pakistani scholars and activists sparred in an extended online debate over the Thinkfest committee’s decision to host historian, Niall Ferguson on their webinar series. He was in dialogue with Professor ...
The global protests against racism that are raging under the banner of Black Lives Matter (BLM) have followed on the heels of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. Both these spectacular mass movements are inspirational ...
Asma Jahangir’s journey of human rights activism since the 1980s signifies the interplay, shifts, and conflicts involving [Pakistan’s] dualistic legal and normative rights regimes as they have clashed, converged, and sometimes settled at temporary stalemate. Her advocacy ...
Afiya Shehrbano Zia in this article has responded to Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir’s defence of Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari’s use of ‘veil’ during a recent official visit to Iran. Read Imaan Mazari’s article here. Imaan ...
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