Pakistani Women, Too, Shall Rise

As countries around the globe celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8th, Pakistani women and transgender people confronted baton charging police officers and protesting men from conservative groups amid attempts by them to stop the ‘contentious” and ‘immoral’ Aurat March—a grassroots movement led by women, for women, to celebrate womanhood and protest the systematic societal discrimination and patriarchal norms and prejudices that women encounter every day in the country.