Aurat March Islamabad

27/07/2026

Balochistan bleeds in a cycle we have watched for far too long ; violence in Balochistan keeps writing itself into our timelines.

We can not keep calling this news when it is really a wound reopening again and again!!!

END THE VIOLENCE IN BALOCHISTAN

22/07/2026

14/07/2026

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Jab tak aurat tang rahat gi, Jang rahay gi!

11/06/2026

10/06/2026

Aurat March Islamabad strongly condemns the recent attack on members of the Ahmadiyya community in Rabwah. Violence, persecution, and discrimination against religious minorities have no place in a just and democratic society.

The repeated targeting of Ahmadis, coupled with restrictions on their religious freedoms, reflects a deeply concerning climate of intolerance and impunity. We call on the state to ensure the safety and security of all citizens, hold perpetrators and those who incite hatred accountable, and uphold the fundamental rights guaranteed to every individual.

We stand in solidarity with the Ahmadiyya community and reaffirm our commitment to a Pakistan where people of all faiths can live with dignity, equality, and freedom from fear.

07/05/2026

STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY

WE STAND WITH AURAT MARCH KARACHI: ARREST CRIMINALS, NOT ACTIVISTS

On 5 May 2026, our organisers, and allies of Aurat March Karachi were arrested outside the Karachi Press Club for the crime of wanting to speak. We, Aurat March Islamabad, stand in full and unconditional solidarity with our Karachi chapter.

We know this feeling. On 8 March 2026 International Women's Day, the Islamabad Police did the same to us. Our organisers were violently arrested. Our participants were dragged away. Those who came to the police station in solidarity were detained too. The state has shown us, again and again, that it views feminist organizing not as a democratic right but as a threat to be suppressed.

We are tired of being treated as the enemy while the actual enemies of women walk free.

Every day in this country, women are killed in the name of honour. Every day, survivors of gender-based violence are turned away, disbelieved, silenced. Every day, trans women, religious minority women, women with disabilities, refugee women, young girls in all their diversities face violence with no recourse. And yet the state finds the resources, the personnel, the political will to deploy dozens of officers outside a press club to stop women from speaking into a microphone.
This is a political choice. And we reject it.
The Sindh government, which presents itself as progressive, must answer for what happened on 5 May. The federal government must answer for what happened to us on 8 March. You cannot invoke the language of women's empowerment while your police physically remove women's rights defenders from the streets.

The state must decide: is it with the people, or against them?
Because right now, its actions have given us only one answer.

We demand that the Sindh government immediately issue the NOC for Aurat March Karachi's 10 May march at Sea View. We demand that state machinery from Islamabad to Karachi and beyond be redirected toward protecting women, not silencing them.

To our Karachi chapter: we see you. We stand with you. Your march is our march!

04/05/2026

Glimpses from outside NPC where members of Aurat March Islamat, along with civil society groups and human right activists, gathered in solidarity demanding the release of Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali, who have endured 100 days of imprisonment for standing with the voiceless.