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- Title
Political Oppression, Resistance and Leadership Change: The Rise of Nasim Wali Khan as a Leader.
- Authors
Bashir, Hassina; Jan, Muhammad Ayub
- Abstract
Turbulent political situations have often facilitated the rise of women leaders in South Asia. Such leaders courageously confronted the testing times and expressed their agency through efficient political manoeuvring; consequently, prolonging their stay in politics. This is particularly the case with a Pakhtun woman leader, Nasim Wali Khan. In this paper, we explore how Nasim Wali Khan emerged as a leader in face of ferocious political suppression such as imprisonment and torcher, perpetrated by the regime of Z.A. Bhutto and how she retained her position through political manoeuvring. The arguments in this paper are based on data collected through secondary and primary sources. Interviews are conducted with the various political workers, academicians, journalists and the family members of Nasim Wali Khan to gain valuable insights. The paper finds out that despite patriarchal social structures and politically menacing regime, Nasim Wali Khan undertook the leadership responsibilities and struggled to occupy and retain a crucial dissenting political space during 1970s.
- Subjects
POLITICAL persecution; LEADERSHIP; KHAN, Nasim Wali
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
2074-2738
- Publication type
Article