Farkhanda Shahid Khan

Ek Kachori, do Samosa: A Rhyme that Rattles Patriarchy
- By Farkhanda Shahid Khan
- October 13, 2026
Resistance begins where obedience loses its moral authority. A woman says no, and patriarchy declares war. The punishment may begin with an insult, harden into…

Only bullet—nothing else
- By Farkhanda Shahid Khan
- July 24, 2025
QUIET… a sound came from the crowd during the gunfire. “No abuse, only bullet.” Six bullets tore through the young woman’s body and twice that…

The C-section cult
- By Farkhanda Shahid Khan
- June 13, 2024
PAKISTAN’S pledge to uphold religious freedom for minorities has soured into a tale of escalating persecution. Accusations of blasphemy, targeted killings, mob violence and desecration…

In wars: Women first to suffer, last to be heard
- By Farkhanda Shahid Khan
- November 7, 2023
ONGOING devastation in Gaza Strip jogs people’s memory back to what Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot claims. It conveys the absurdity of illogical and unjust…

Reviving hope: Woman, life, freedom
- By Farkhanda Shahid Khan
- October 15, 2023
NARGES Mohammadi’s thirty years of activism for women’s equality and against gender-based oppression brought her a personal cost of thirty-one years sentence in Iran’s Evin…





