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Jutti. The Juti or Jutti is a type of footwear common in North India, Pakistan, and neighboring regions. They are traditionally made up of leather and with extensive embroidery, in real gold and silver thread as inspired by royalty in the subcontinent over 400 years ago. Prior to that, Rajputs of the northwest used to wear leather juttis, [2 ...
Rank. 135th out of 191. Global Gender Gap Index [ 2] Value. 0.575 (2023) Rank. 142th out of 146 (2023) Women in Pakistan make up 48.76% of the population according to the 2017 census of Pakistan. [ 3] Women in Pakistan have played an important role throughout Pakistan's history [ 4] and they are allowed to vote in elections since 1956. [ 5]
Gilgit-Baltistan (/ ˌ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ɪ t ˌ b ɔː l t ɪ ˈ s t ɑː n,-s t æ n /; Urdu: گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان [12] listen ⓘ) [a], formerly known as the Northern Areas, [13] is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan ...
Mera Jism Meri Marzi ( Urdu: میرا جسم میری مرضی; lit. 'My body, my choice') is a slogan used by feminists in Pakistan to demand bodily autonomy and protest gender-based violence. [1] The slogan was popularized during the Aurat March in Pakistan, which has been observed on International Women's Day since 2018.
The Hindi–Urdu controversy arose in 19th century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language . Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language ...
Pakistan is a multilingual country with over 70 languages spoken as first languages. [ 2][ 3] The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. [ 4][ 5] Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred ...
Umera Ahmed (Punjabi, Urdu: عمیرہ احمد) is a Pakistani writer, author and screenwriter. She is best known for her novels and plays Shehr-e-Zaat , Pir-e-Kamil , Zindagi Gulzar Hai , Alif , Durr-e-Shehwar , Daam , Man-o-Salwa , Qaid-e-Tanhai , Digest Writer , Maat , Kankar , Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan , Doraha and Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay .
Feminism in Pakistan refers to the set of movements which aim to define, establish, and defend the rights of women in Pakistan.This may involve the pursuit of equal political, economic, and social rights, alongside equal opportunity. [ 1][ 2][ 3] These movements have historically been shaped in response to national and global reconfiguration of ...