Sukkena Afzal - The Youth Blog

Lost Potential: Pakistan’s Education Crisis and the Urgent Call for Change

Pakistan – a country rich in culture and blessed with a diverse population – struggles with crucial challenges in its educational sector, restricting its overall growth and development potential. These challenges, however, are not new but rather dating back to colonial-era policies. The educational obstacles in Pakistan are intricate, complicated and multifaceted, including – but…

Women’s rights? A mere joke!

Trigger Warning: Mention of Sexual Harassment. Few days ago, while I was commuting back from my university, I was subjected to sexual harassment. Since I was traveling alone, the harasser followed me all the way till my home and kept flashing repeatedly. This occurrence left me in an unexplainable trauma, and I reached home with…

Degree or skills? A Guideline for the Youth

The youth is indecisive. The discourse over whether a university degree is imperative or are skills more crucial has been going on for the longest time; especially since the evolution of technology and the introduction of the concept of work from home and freelancing (blog writing, copy writing, digital content creating etc.). There are various…

Rid Us of the Persistent Depiction of Domestic Violence!

Mass media, in any society, has a powerful position to influence the overall culture, making it a critical component in creating and altering current ideologies within the given society. In a patriarchal orthodox society like Pakistan, our media’s role has been nothing short of a terrible nightmare in normalising our minds towards the glorification of…

A call for more positive male leads in Pakistani dramas.

Being a girl in her twenties, born and raised in a deeply rooted patriarchal society, while also being an avid consumer of similar content on media, I wish for nothing more than a healthy and positive portrayal of men in fiction. I admit the dramas are mostly based on real life stories from society, but…