The details of the son watching his father die are in the documentary co-directed by Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Naqvi

Children are children. I don't want to leave any of them vulnerable enough to think they have reason to pick up a gun

Had I thought I possessed the tool to conquer tragedies of Pakistan with reason, I would long have been a broken woman

I took a number, and lectured my son on possible impact of insentient control mechanisms on a tribal society.

If someone knocked on a door and shouted ‘Emergency!’ the person on the other side would say, ‘Emergency who?’

We Pakistani women still find ourselves in a situation where we let decisions about our lives be taken by men.

Contrary to the narrative, a lot of people in Pakistan DO support persecution of people for their ‘otherness’.

By making more space in public discourse for women, we'd have greater diversity, move towards healing use of...

“Baat karnay main kya harj hai yaar. We won’t talk to the ones who kill anyway, we’ll talk to the other ones.”