{"id":54213,"date":"2023-04-10T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/apr\/10\/woman-pakistan-independence"},"modified":"2023-04-10T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T07:00:13","slug":"i-stopped-relying-on-other-people-to-make-plans-as-a-woman-in-pakistan-thats-no-small-thing-anmol-irfan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54213","title":{"rendered":"I stopped relying on other people to make plans \u2013 as a woman in Pakistan, that\u2019s no small thing | Anmol Irfan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new independence has been met with everything from curiosity to awkward laughter. But this is about me, not them<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/projectdastaan.org\/lost-migrations\/\">Lost Migrations<\/a>, an animated film series I\u2019d been waiting to see for months, finally premiered in Karachi earlier this year, I immediately saved the date in my calendar. But instead of doing what I, or anyone around me, would usually do \u2013 coordinate with a group of friends \u2013 I decided to go alone.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, the idea of doing anything alone, much less in Pakistan as a woman, would have seemed impossible. Women in Pakistan are generally expected to socialise inside, rather than in public (although there are growing attempts to challenge this by women\u2019s movements), and many believe there can be safety risks to going out alone.<\/p>\n<p>Anmol Irfan is a freelance journalist and founder of Perspective Magazine<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/apr\/10\/woman-pakistan-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new independence has been met with everything from curiosity to awkward laughter. But this is about me, not themWhen Lost Migrations, an animated film series I\u2019d been waiting to see for months, finally premiered in Karachi earlier this year, I immed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[237,78,60,79,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-life-and-style","category-pakistan","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54221,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54213\/revisions\/54221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}