A woman s body belongs to her: Nadia Jamil
Actor reinstated how rapes occur when women are looked upon as sexual objects
Actor Nadia Jamil, who recently recovered from cancer, has been quite active on social media since her treatment.
She often posts about her everyday activities and her newly-found love for living. And amid appreciating life, she also comments on ongoing social issues. Most recently, the actor took to Twitter to comment on the ongoing debate around rape and the causes attached to it and other, similar societal evils. Toxic unsafe dangerous masculinity is self entitled. Rapes, ogles, disrespect is meant to impose an ownership over women. Seeing women as sexual objects, is violent and abusive.There is also a deeply nurturing, poetic, beautiful masculinity that strengthens, progresses and empowers. Choose.
March 14, 2021
There are a few credible writers in the industry who are writing groundbreaking scripts and defying norms by staying clear of regressive drama tropes and gender stereotypes
Bee Gul’s Talkhiyaan was an adaptation of Arundhati Roy’s renowned bestseller God of Small Things
The script is the sole foundation of any and every audio-visual piece of work in all entertainment industries, whether it’s theatre, film, or television both commercial or critical in nature. Scriptwriters continue to be in high demand in the Pakistani entertainment industry and yet cease to be celebrated individuals when it comes to crediting them for their meritorious contribution. Here’s a list of credible writers who are breaking ground with their scripts and defying norms by staying clear of regressive drama tropes and gender stereotypes.
In this photo from January 11, 2018, a girl lights a candle during a memorial for Zainab Ansari in Islamabad, Pakistan [File: BK Bangash/AP Photo]
On January 9, 2018, the body of seven-year-old Zainab Ansari was discovered on a rubbish dump in her home town of Kasur, Pakistan.
She was not the first young girl from the city to have disappeared and protests erupted in Kasur about police inaction over a string of violent sexual attacks against small children in the city. This anger spread beyond Kasur as riots broke out across Pakistan.
Three weeks after Zainab was raped and murdered, her killer, Imran Ali, was arrested with the help of security camera footage – which was obtained not by police, but by Zainab’s relatives. He was found guilty of similar crimes against six more girls. The families of those other children had sought help from the police but had been dismissed or come under suspicion themselves, leaving the killer free to continue offending. He was executed later tha
Desk Report When I lost my hair, I realised I loved my face and I am beautiful; and so are you!
Photo: Nadia Jamil/Instagram
Actor Nadia Jamil, who has through social media shared her journey of being diagnosed with breast cancer and fighting it, has words of encouragement for her fans and followers as she narrates tales of being bullied and how she overcame her insecurities during the process.
Taking to social media, the
Behadd actor motivated her Instagram followers to embrace their baldness and recognise their beauty. To all those beautiful bald men and women out there, wear your baldness with pride!
Children’s Literature Festival starts
Lahore
February 9, 2021
LAHORE:The three-day Children’s Literature Festival (CLF), a nationwide movement and flagship programme of civil society organisation Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), started hybrid to hold the first Pakistan Learning Festival (PLF) to promote learning during the pandemic on Monday.
The multi-site, multi-lingual and multi-cultural festival, being held in collaboration with British Council Pakistan, Children Library Complex (CLC), Oxford University Press (OUP) Pakistan, Room to Read and National History Museum (NHM), kicked off with a number of interactive sessions and activities taking place simultaneously at three locations – CLC and NHM in Lahore, and OUP Bookstore Park Towers in Karachi – where a few students and teachers were present on site while mostly attended it online from across Pakistan and beyond.