Sindhiani Tahreek

Sindhiani Tahreek (Sindhi: سنڌياڻي تحريڪ) (Sindhi women's movement) was launnched in 1980 AD by rural women of Sindh province of Pakistan to fight the discrimnatory laws against women promulgated by Zia regime.Sindhiani Tahreek's rural, grass roots basis enables its membership to consists of peasant women,students,school teachers, educated housewives and professional women. Allied with Awami Tahreek in Sindh,Sindhiani tahreek endeavoured to make women aware of larger provincial issues such as question of using Sindhi language in schools and political institutions in the province,accelerating practice of autioning land to Non-Sindhi people,and the growing Sindhi nationalism.[1]

References

  1. Myron Weiner, Ali Banuazizi, “Political Science,” The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan Syracuse University Press: 1994. See pp. 435.