For countless people and for countless years, Bilquis Bano Edhi had been a mother, especially for the orphans at the Edhi Foundation orphanage that she established with her late husband, the humanitarian and philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi. On April 15, 2022, all these people and many more who worked or were supported by the Edhi Foundation, lost that mother, whom they all called ‘Bari Amma’. Courtesy: Edhi.org At 74, Bilquis Edhi passed away at a hospital in Karachi, five years after her husband, whom she worked alongside to provide all…
Bas, bohat hogaya! This has to stop now, and it can only stop when swift punishment of the highest degree is given to these monsters who treat their women as trash and crush them ruthlessly. And each time it happens, many people are more interested in knowing what the woman did to drive the man to this brutality and then there are also justifications of the guy being a drug addict, or mentally unstable or a ‘girat-mand’ who was driven to it by a twisted sense of honour. NO WOMAN…
While there is much talk about women’s rights and the status of women in our society, there has been little change in the conditions faced by women. This makes it imperative that the importance of days such as International Women’s Day needs to be highlighted until things actually improve.
There are all kinds of fathers, each very special and unique in his own way, adding laughter and lessons in the lives of their little ones. Here is a Father’s Day tribute to my father and all the fathers out there.
The world has changed forever in these last few weeks. And when this is all over, we would also have changed in so many ways — the way we do things, the way we look at things and the way we take all small and important things in life. These weeks and the weeks ahead of social distancing due to COVID-19 appear daunting and depressing. There are more questions than there are answers. Few people are sure of what to do, but there is no doubt that staying at home…