Asma Jahangir: A meaningful life, an inspiring legacy
From the Blog beenasarwar *I wrote this piece for a web dossier being produced by Heinrich Boell Foundation for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' 70th anniversary 2018. Sharing now, a year after Asma Jahangir has passed on. Above: Asma Jahangir at her office; still from my documentary Mukhtiar Mai: The struggle for justice (2006)* *By Beena Sarwar* The field on the outskirts of Lahore was full of workers waiting to hear the woman from the city speak. They squatted on their haunches with dull hopeless eyes, the drab greys and browns of their clothes at one with the earth they fashioned into bricks to bake in bhattas — kilns that dot the rural landscape of Punjab and upper Sindh. For their back-breaking labour they were paid in kind, leading to generations of indebtedness as the traditional infpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
My standing
From the Blog ashrafiya Shaikh Mahfouz (Allah have mercy on him) said, 'Do not weigh people on your scale. Weigh yourself in the scale of the pious selected travelers (on the path). By doing so you will see the blessings bestowed on them and your own destituteness.' Masalik-us-salikeen, pg 2 pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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