Adil Najam
I urge you to watch this clip. Watch it in full; its only 7 minutes long. Watch it to the end please – don’t skip to the end, even if you feel it is dragging. If you have not seen it already, you will surely be surprised; and moved.
04:46
Sufi had first introduced me to this BBC series through his wonderful post called Panni ka Bulbula and had also featured this video at Karachi Metroblog many months ago. Today, as I saw it again on YouTube I thought that even as we get all excited about the high political dramas of our times, the everyday struggles for survival like this deserve our attention… and our respect.
Brave girl
thanks so much for sharing this. I dont have any words to express what i felt after seeing this.
The first thing I thought when I looked at her was that this was a female. A women’s magazine did a spread recently on a similar case in Afghanistan, a 21 year old woman is supporting her family dressed as a teenage boy. Trouble is, as they get older it becomes harder to keep up the charade and then what happens to them and their families? It’s a shame that this is necessary.
uh this was pretty obvious before she even said her name. how was that surprising?
and bbc urdu is doing some great work seriously.