After getting through several months of chemo and cycles of treatment, my six-year-old nephew, Sherry, is cancer-free today.
I hope this brings some comfort to anyone else who finds themselves in a similar situation. ❤️🩹
In 1950s, the govt hosted a concert in Punjab University to raise funds for flood victims.
Organisers asked Noor Jehan not to sing “Mujh Se Pehli Si Muhabbat” because the govt opposed Faiz’s leftist poetry.
She replied: “Then I will not sing at all.”
On a serious note, please stay in touch with your friends or family members who might be at risk of domestic abuse tonight, which increases dramatically when we lose a game. If you are at risk, call 109 for urgent support.
A guy just broke up with my friend because apparently her laugh was too loud.
In his family, girls that laugh louder are described as indecent and characterless, which has influenced his decision.
Masculinity so fragile that a woman only has to laugh to challenge it.
My friend was beaten, left unconscious by her husband.
She approached her mother-in-law for help, who instead speaking to her or helping her said: “beta, tum namaz nai parti na to iss waja se gharelo tashadud hota hai.”
I mean no disrespect but really.
In 2010, my mum was diagnosed with a terminal disease.
It was the eve of Eid in 2011. She had only Rs 800 to buy new clothes for both of us.
She bought me new pant & shirt, while she bought a used dress for herself from flea market (Landa Bazar) for Rs 50
My heart still breaks
In 1985, Iqbal Bano became a cult icon when she roused an audience of 50,000 people in Lahore as an act of resistance.
She wore a black sari and sang Faiz's passionate anthem Hum Dekhenge.
At the time, Zia had imprisoned the leftist poet Fiaz, banned his poetry and the sari.
If they can do this to the spouse of a former PM, imagine the shitshow ordinary women go through in Pakistani courts. It’s precisely why, as a nation, we are in a state of complete mess.
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Bilal Saqib invented the wheel that helps rural women roll a water tank instead of carrying it on their head.
This solution reduces their risk to back pain and plans to add a filter in each wheel to purify the water.
Don't hesitate to support our innovators.
#DasaniHeroes
It’s my birthday today.
With my favourite photo, I’d like to share a lesson I’ve learned: standing up for yourself against hatred is worth losing friends over.
Introducing you to the Abdus Salam Library 📚
The library was named to honour Nobel Prize winning physicist and Imperial Professor, Abdus Salam. Find out more 👇
A white guy just looked at me on an underground train and lashed out “so many fucking foreigners everywhere”. My heart sank. I can’t believe what just happened.
The photo suggests that women who choose to wear a burqa do not have access to information which is quite deceptive.
Wearing a bikini or burqa doesn't determine how eager one is to learn.
Male on male rape and its shameful denial are an epidemic in Pakistan. The student could've been saved much earlier on.
While Mufti's arrest is a positive sign, there's an underlying lesson for society to learn: Believe victims, including men, when they speak up about the abuse.
Extremely harsh penalties must be given to those monsters, who harassed a helpless girl in Minar-e-Pakistan.
How many more women will have to be harassed, abused or attacked before the govt makes this issue a top priority of its public safety agenda?!
Enough is enough.
Two years ago, Shaheed Mashal Khan was brutally killed. Many who lynched him still walk free today. But our hearts are with Mashal always because the brave and defiant are never forgotten
I stare at this picture of my brother & me struggling to hold still in the arms of our parents who are no longer here. I wonder every day whether they exist somewhere. People, who meant the world to us, simply disappear from this world. How can worlds like these cease altogether?
⚡First vlog: let me teach y'all how to cook biryani in 34 seconds.
📢Nothing is surprising about men taking responsibility in the kitchen.
Cooking isn't macho, it has been gender-blind most of our history. So help out your sister, mum or wife.
Please show some love.👨🍳🍚
This morning, my father passed away. He was a caring husband, a loving father and a generous grandfather. Although he had a challenging life, he taught us to be hopeful, kind and hardworking. We'll miss him dearly. Please keep him in your prayers. Thank you.
In 2015, she passed away while I still had six months to graduate and start earning.
I could never do anything as meaningful yet as simple as what she did for me on that eve of Eid.
For this very reason, there will always be a void in my heart, which can never be filled.
Back in the day, Noor Jehan was taking many political and societal taboos in her stride.
Many people who belong to the same industry from across the border should take some notes if they’re done venting, got it? OK?
Just met Ali (age 13) who cleans cars windshield at a signal in Islamabad during the night and goes to school in the morning.
He refuses charity when I offered, instead requested if he could clean the windshield. It is 4°C right now and he works
#TumhariMehnat
ko salam, beta 💔
A friend recently lost her mother. I rang to offer my condolences. But we stayed on the call without saying a word as if we found some shared comfort in the silence, knowing there wasn’t anything we could have said to calm our relentless hearts. Piercing, remorseful silence.
Why do the likes of Tariq Jameel link floods, earthquakes & pandemics to women's modesty?
Why do they forget that it's a man who raped 9 yr old Zainab, it's a man who marries 1 in 5 girls before they're 18, it's a man who raped women's corpses, it's a man who hits 9 in 10 women?
I am rooting for Justice (R) Nasira Iqbal for being considered and (hopefully) eventually becoming Pakistan's first female President.
She is also the daughter in law of Allama Iqbal.
Veena blamed
#SaniaMirza
for taking her son out to a sheesha cafe, while disregarding that Shoaib Malik is equally accountable.
In response, Sania - an ambassador for gender - belittles Veena for exercising her right to choose what to wear.
Who won? Patriarchy, misogyny.
Faiz is said to have been so impressed by her daring act – as well as her masterful rendering of the poem – that he gave up his proprietary rights over the poem in her favour: “Mujh se pehli si muhabbat now belongs to Noor Jehan,” many a public conversation quotes him as saying.
Imagine a mosque originally built over a cathedral was turned back into a church?
Hagia Sophia is an ancient, cultural heritage site, which is equally important both to Muslims and Christians.
It should remain a museum.