At one point I stopped reading Pakistani newspapers as the standard of journalism was getting so gutted. But I have to acknowledge that Daily Dawn has made a comeback. Personally, I believe this is the only newspaper in Pakistan which comes near to the standard journalism. Following article from Rafia Zakaria is an interesting one. She compared the psych of pre-partition Indian women (taken from Ismat Chughtai's character) and evolving psyche of today's Pakistani society (portrayed in TV dramas).
"....These, however, are different sorts of women altogether from the Shama of Chughtai’s time. Instead of being rebels or presenting an alternative to the predominant mores of the moment, they represent regression. The women err and suffer and present cautionary tales of what happens to women who do not at all times worship traditional morality.
Religion looms large and the woman’s weakness is often a failure to follow it in letter and spirit. The first wife who does not allow her husband to take a second wife is not a normal human being but deficient in her devotion, unable to adequately embrace the tenets of her faith and causing innumerable suffering to all others in her orbit....."
Link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1459274/propaganda-for-the-patriarchy
"....These, however, are different sorts of women altogether from the Shama of Chughtai’s time. Instead of being rebels or presenting an alternative to the predominant mores of the moment, they represent regression. The women err and suffer and present cautionary tales of what happens to women who do not at all times worship traditional morality.
Religion looms large and the woman’s weakness is often a failure to follow it in letter and spirit. The first wife who does not allow her husband to take a second wife is not a normal human being but deficient in her devotion, unable to adequately embrace the tenets of her faith and causing innumerable suffering to all others in her orbit....."
Link: https://www.dawn.com/news/1459274/propaganda-for-the-patriarchy
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