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Zeb and Haniya

Friendly acquaintances of my brother, these young Lahore-based women compose and sing in their Pashto mother-tongue. That the cousin-duo, who hark from a landed family in Kohat, NWFP, should be singing in public, and s…
Paki and beautiful

If you're Paki and you know it And you really want to show it If you're Paki and you know it Take a pic Thank you to Michael Cheetham (michael@wizdenwowworks.co.uk), London-based photographer extraordinaire, for taking…
Profiles of innovative friends who inspire me: Sarah

Sarah Suhail (26) is the oldest friend I have. We were introduced in 1990 and babbled about politics. We both, apparently, had aspirations to become Pakistan's prime minister. She's also the first person - and last - I s…
Profiles of inspiring people in my life in London: Afra

Afra Khan (24) is a kindred spirit. Like me, she feels shame and sadness at the state in which Pakistan is in. Like me, she not only feels compelled to do something to develop Pakistan, but is active in bringing about th…
Profiles of inspiring people in my life in London: Sana

A young widow and mother of two little boys as well as responsible for credit risk (executive director, no less) at the world's premier investment bank, Sana (31) has shown remarkable strength since the death of her late…
Long day's journey

Imaduddin Ahmed and Ume-Laila AzharThe Women's Action Forum celebrates its silver jubilee; it started in a blaze, but where has it gone? In September 1981, women came together in Karachi in an emergency meeting to o…
Women's Action Forum national convention, Lahore 1982

Taken from Lala Rukh's photo archive, The Friday Times published this picture on the 25th anniversary of the Women's Action Forum, taken at WAF's national convention in Lahore in October, 1982. What began as spontaneous …
I remember - Nahid Siddiqui

I remember when my Urdu teacher at primary school in Karachi asked class to write an essay on what we wanted to be when we grew up. Seeing my mother, Tallat Siddiqui, as a role model, I wrote that I wanted to be an actr…
memories of a bygone liberal Pakistan and an energetic women's rights movement

 remember. . .? Nighat Said Khan I remember that as a girl, we hardly ever had access to a car, but at the same time, I felt freer because I was mobile. I don think I was ever stopped from riding my bicycle to where…
first op-ed . . . and in The Boston Globe and International Herald Tribune

the point of publishing it in the US is to put pressure on Musharraf, although I should have reminded the Americans that they've been just as disinterested in Pakistani women's rights when it didn't suit them. (Zia's reg…

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