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Marchers holding placards during Aurat March 2020. The Aurat March (Urdu: عورت مارچ, lit. ' Women's March ') is an annual socio-political demonstration in Pakistani cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar and Islamabad to observe International Women's Day.
Kishwar Naheed was born in 1940 to a Syed family in Bulandshahr, British India. [2] After the partition, she migrated to Lahore, Pakistan with her family in 1949. [4] Kishwar was a witness to the violence (including rape and abduction of women) associated with the partition of India. [5]
Rekhti (Urdu: ریختی, Hindi: रेख़ती), is a form of Urdu feminist poetry. A genre developed by male poets, [1] it uses women's voices to talk about themselves. [2] [3] [4] It was formed in 19th-century Lucknow, then part of the State of Awadh (now in Uttar Pradesh, India). [1] The poet Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin is credited with its ...
Women writers also began to receive recognition for writing ghazal after carving space for themselves during the 1940s in the masculine, male-dominated mushaira. [29] Writers such as Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed have expanded the ghazal to explore feminist perspectives and speak on issues in society.
Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; [4] born 12 July 1997) [1] [4] [5] is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [6] at the age of 17.
National Commission on Status of Women (NCSW) (Urdu: قومی کمیشن برائے وقار نسواں) is a Pakistani statutory body established by the President Pervez Musharraf, under the XXVI Ordinance dated 17 July 2000. [1]
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker.Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.
After independence, women in Pakistan continued to advocate for women's political empowerment through legal reforms. They mobilised support, leading to the passage of the Muslim Personal Law of Sharia in 1948, which recognised a woman's right to inherit all forms of property.