Herstory/Ourstory The Women’s Movement in Pakistan 1947 – 2021
February 12 marks a milestone in the history of the women’s movement in Pakistan. On this day in 1983, women defied the military dictatorship of Zia-ul-Haq by taking out a public demonstration in Lahore despite martial law regulations that banned all political activities, processions, and public protests. The immediate catalyst for the demonstration was the proposed law of evidence which would effectively have reduced the testimony of women to half that of men; the accumulative trigger was the dictatorship’s...
