For nearly three decades, Uks Research Centre (uks meaning “reflection”) has been examining women’s issues in Pakistan, with a particular focus on how women are represented and stereotyped in the media. On Tuesday, the Islamabad-based organisation held an informal online webinar to unpack a growing concern: the widening disconnect between female characters in Pakistani television dramas and the lived realities of women watching them.
The discussion aimed to place both the good and the problematic aspects of contemporary storytelling under the
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