"I was born into the brick kilns. I started working at the age of 12. The work never ended. We’re expected to make 1,000 bricks per day. We work from 5 AM to dusk. I tried to organize the workers recently to demand fair wages. We held meetings at night, but one of the workers informed on us. The owners called me to...

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"I just found out we've been evicted. Right after you leave, I'm going to start packing up. I've got to find my family a new place to live by tonight. The landlady is a good woman. She's just in a tough situation. Her disabled son lost his home. I'll handle it. I've been through worse."(Hunza Valley, Pakistan) ...

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This week I got back to work from my month long break.  A break I had taken to mourn the death of my loved ones who recently passed away. During the 30 days I reflected and cried a lot, prayed a lot and thanked a lot.  But more than anything I learnt a lot. Some of the major learnings are: Photo credit: Pinterest (The pink...

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2015 marks a decade of my journey for women empowerment in Pakistan. From the podium where I read my first poem against honor killings in 2005 to working with an amazing group of leaders to establish the Sughar Fund in US this year, there has been some tremendous adventures, setbacks, opposition, threats, challenges and success.  Many times life has shoved me so hard...

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