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Saigol authored various books on the themes of gender, nationalism, identity. Her book ‘The Pakistan Project: A Feminist Perspective on Nation & Identity’, examines ‘the unstable genealogy of this idea of Pakistan from Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and M.A. Jinnah to Zia ul-Haq, through a gendered lens thus exposing its many, often contradictory, premises and assumptions.
Pasha was born in Pakistan in 1984. From the age of 15 she engaged in her mother's charity in Pakistan and helped women entrepreneurs from rural areas connect with global market. She developed a network of support to help these women to showcase their products. She then moved to the United Kingdom with her family in 2000.
Shiza Shahid was born and raised in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.She spent her early teen years as a volunteer worker and as an activist. At the age of 14 she started working in prisons occupied by women who were convicted of various crimes.
Women represent a growing sector of social entrepreneurs. Gailey and Bhatt Datta write that women are often driven to entrepreneurship in order to feel empowered in their own circumstances because they want: "(1) Access to resources, including preconditions; (2) agency, including process; and (3) achievements, including outcomes." [4]
Ishrat Afreen (born 1956), Pakistani-American poet, women's rights activist, educator; Moniza Alvi (born 1954), Pakistani-British poet; Altaf Fatima (1927–2018), Pakistani novelist; Afzal Tauseef (May 18 1936 – December 30 2014), writer, columnist and journalist
Feminism in Pakistan refers to the set of movements which aim to define, establish, and defend the rights of women in Pakistan.This may involve the pursuit of equal political, economic, and social rights, alongside equal opportunity.
Pakistan portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Pakistani writers . It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
She was the fourth Pakistani to appear on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Social Entrepreneurs [7] and the first Pakistani to become a future energy leader at the World Energy Council. [ 8 ] In 2016, the UN Secretary-General appointed Fiza Farhan as a member of his first-ever high-level panel on women's economic empowerment amidst global ...