Let’s talk about sex – II
Sex education has always been a point of conflict between public educators and conservative religious groups. In my last post, the purpose of highlighting the hypocrisy, double standards and bigotry...
View ArticleDon’t shy away from the ‘talk’: Your children deserve sex-education
Due to some myopic stigmas related to sexual and reproductive health rights issues in our country, parents normally refrain from discussing such topics with children. The result is that sometimes...
View Article10 reasons sex education has nothing to do with vulgarity
While it is truly comforting that Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif -- among many others -- is taking such lively interests in our students’ moral upbringing, he may have mistaken ‘sex education’...
View ArticlePEMRA, banning an ad on contraception makes no sense
From banning websites over blasphemous content to the recent ban on the advertisement for contraception, Pakistan seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The problem at hand is not just the ban, but...
View ArticleCan a 12-year-old girl dance with Fawad Khan and sing about being together?
Step aside, Pitbull. There’s a brand new way to be inappropriately close to women way out of your league! It is a lesson not just for Pakistanis but for all humanity, for all men and children who are...
View ArticleStop hating on Mathira, Pakistan!
Mathira is a young and talented icon of Pakistan and I do not understand why the people of this country love to hate her. Last year the uproar was on her modelling in the Josh condom advertisement and...
View Article‘Beautiful Teen Boys of Pakistan’: A chance for us to introspect
There are many evils on this earth and our country has its fair share. Since our childhood, we have heard a countless number of disturbing stories – stories about little girls beaten to death by angry...
View ArticleSaying ‘That’s just the way it is in Pakistan’ is not going to help bring...
Jonathan Lethem is a renowned author and a fellow alumnus of Bennington College. In 2005, he advised the graduating class to ‘abandon Rome, if you think you can’. These words may just be the remedy to...
View ArticlePakistani media should learn something from India’s Satyamev Jayate
Hypocrisy is one of Pakistan’s most wide-spread epidemics. The channel, which defamed and criticised a respectable educationist for ‘corrupting the youth’ of Pakistan by imparting sex education,...
View ArticlePakistan’s Hidden Shame: Exposing child sexual abuse and Pakistan’s ‘see no...
Pakistan’s Hidden Shame, a documentary exploring the widespread sexual abuse of children in the streets of Peshawar, is something one wishes every Pakistani would take time to watch, while imploring...
View ArticleSexually abusing children in the name of sex education
Very often we find a wolf in sheep’s clothing; it can be a doctor who gives you the wrong diagnosis or treatment to con you out of money or it can be a preacher who radicalises innocent youth seeking...
View ArticleRajinder Singh Bedi: Film-making is not child’s play
September 1st marks the birth centenary of Rajinder Singh Bedi, one of the most gifted and greatest fiction writers of the 20th century, completing the quartet whose membership also extends to Saadat...
View ArticleChild-abuse? Oh please, that doesn’t exist in Pakistan!
“I was too young to know at the time; all I knew was that it was uncomfortable and painful.” I froze when I heard my friend say these words. Surely not in our families? Surely not in the lives of my...
View ArticleSughra died when she was 11, but she will not rest in peace
We live in a society where children are not taught much about the different forms of abuse. As adults, we are reluctant to discuss sex education, necessary for their safety. Child sexual abuse is...
View ArticleWas Fawad Khan’s decision to play a homosexual a mistake?
Kapoor and Sons has garnered much success after its release, grossing over INR100 crore globally within just one week. But apart from its box-office triumph, the film has also received acclaim for...
View ArticleWhat is so ‘filthy’ and ‘unnatural’ about reproductive sex, Pakistan?
A close friend of mine recently had an STI (sexually transmitted infection) scare. Despite being in excruciating pain, she was scared to ask her husband how she got the infection. After a few days of...
View ArticleWhen your “trusted” male servant is caught molesting your little girl, what...
Some miseries are avoidable. If you speak to victims of sexual abuse and sexual harassment, they’ll tell you they wished they had spoken up. Done something to stop it. Wished somehow they could have...
View ArticleZainab was clearly not the last one as cases keep popping up, yet sex...
Recently, a school guard of a private school in Karachi was detained by the police for allegedly molesting a minor girl. A five-year-old girl barely escaped a rape attempt in Bahawalpur. The body of a...
View ArticleHe exercised his right as a husband – he used iron bars to consummate his...
Over the past 10 days, Pakistan’s conscious was set ablaze and shaken up when a picture of seven-year-old Zainab’s dead body went viral on the internet. The minor girl from Kasur had been raped,...
View ArticlePublic execution only kills the rapist, not the problem
The Senate Standing Committee on Interior has proposed an amendment in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) to publicly hang convicts found guilty of kidnapping, murdering or raping children less than 14...
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