OBSERVERS of Asma Jahangir,normally male ones, would sometimes put a question to why she was so exasperated. From the 1980s onwards she seemed at the centre of every demonstration in Lahore or Islamabad, or all five feet two inches of her,glasses glinting, gesticulating, and shouting. She led marches,held marathons, set up awkward organisations, and in every way was a gadfly. Most of all,she spoke her mind. It might be in the bar room of the Lahore tall Court, through a furious cloud of beedi smoke, or in court itself,dressing down judges who didn’t get the point, or at a police station, or still protesting. Bemused by this fierce little lawyer,the men would shake their heads.
But in Pakistan, how could she be silent? There was so much pent-up anger, and for so many reasons. Lack of democracy. Almost total lack of justice. Duffer generals,bigoted mullahs, crony capitalists, and chauvinist men. Certainly she could be a well-behaved upper-middle-lesson woman,in elegant shalwar kameez...
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Source: economist.com