Remembering a onslaught for women’s rights
Women Action Forum. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: Rights activists collected on Monday to snippet behind a birth of a Women Action Forum (WAF) and honour a vital fable and associate romantic Nigar Ahmed.
Speaking during a eventuality organized by Aurat Foundation during Marriott Hotel, Mahnaz Rehman said, “These women, during a time when restraint was during a peak, dreamt of a improved place for us to live in. Those were dim times 35 years ago when a magnanimous multitude and mindset was finished divided with in days – when unexpected women started sauce differently. By 1979, we took dual stairs back. And today, we mount on dividing lines. There weren’t many women activists during that time, though they stood adult for their rights and that of others.” Malikah Khan pronounced a entrance of General Zia was a formidable era, observant “There were journalists, writers and lawyers who suffered underneath his rule.”
Politician and romantic Shahnaz Wazir Ali traced a story of a WAF. She said, “The birth of WAF led to a larger rights movement. The avowal of polite rights sprung from it. A on-going celebration and a care was overthrown. Liberal army were totally released from participating in domestic activities.”
Anis Haroon, another polite rights activist, pronounced “The WAF was always non-hierarchical and treated everybody within a domain equally. It was and still is a non-funded entity where decisions are taken by accord and that believes in approved struggle.”
Women are a unsung heroes. Their common and particular efforts led to a swell we see today, pronounced member Masooma Hasan.
Towards a finish of a event, Nigar pronounced it was not only her bid though a common group work. “It is a sacrifices of everybody that paved a approach for a rights struggle. we acknowledge any of we in a room for your contribution.”
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 20th, 2016.
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