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Long day's journey

Imaduddin Ahmed and Ume-Laila AzharThe Women's Action Forum celebrates its silver jubilee; it started in a blaze, but where has it gone? In September 1981, women came together in Karachi in an emergency meeting to o…
Women's Action Forum national convention, Lahore 1982

Taken from Lala Rukh's photo archive, The Friday Times published this picture on the 25th anniversary of the Women's Action Forum, taken at WAF's national convention in Lahore in October, 1982. What began as spontaneous…
Memories of a bygone liberal Pakistan and an energetic women's rights movement

I remember. . . Nighat Said Khan I remember that as a girl, we hardly ever had access to a car, but at the same time, I felt freer because I was mobile. I don't think I was ever stopped from riding my bicycle to where…