rhetorically asked a man if he’d want taliban rule for pakistan too and without missing a beat he said “han, phir ye aurtein tau ghar bethein gi na!” they’d accept slavery under extremist warmongering militants before they can see a woman happy.
The women of this country are feeling crushed and exhausted in the effort that the injustice they face on the daily is acknowledged and recognized, if not punished. We repeat and recount, but no amount of trauma ever makes the cut.
i feel sick to my stomach. there is no way a woman can just "switch off" for even a day in pakistan. there is no respite from violence for us, no escape, no closure. what happened to that poor woman at minar-e-pakistan is our worst nightmare becoming a reality.
I can’t stop thinking about how terrified and trapped she must have felt, surrounded by those brutes. How desperate she must have been for all of it to stop. Was she not human enough for them?
Palestinians are asked to view zionism through its most idealistic, romanticized version, while its factual reality is colonial, anti-Palestinian, apartheid & ethnic cleansing.
Why are profs surprised when students try to game the system? Pakistani education is 10% knowledge acquisition & 90% learning how to game the system to get the best results. Not endorsing it as a teacher, but it is real life skill given our context (& applies elsewhere too).
Congrats to the dude who ‘exposed’ the kissing couple on Airblue. You won the award for saddest man in Pakistan this week! (Ansar Abbasi will be jealous!)