Shifa — Sindh: The 17-Year-Old Who Turned Fog Into a Vision for Clean Energy

Shifa was academically strong, but she was shy. Speaking in front of others was difficult, and leadership did not come naturally to her. Then she was given an opportunity to do something different: solve a real problem. Through a school entrepreneurship programme, Shifa and an all-girl team developed Nebulavolt—an innovative concept responding to a familiar … Read more

Naushaba Roonjho: The Girl Told to Stop Studying—Now She Is Sending Girls to School

When Naushaba Roonjho from Interior Sindh passed her secondary-school examination in 2010, becoming the first woman from her community to do so, there was no celebration. She was told she had studied enough. Her father wanted her to stay at home. She was married at 17. Her education could easily have ended there. But Naushaba … Read more

Mahnoor Omer — Rawalpindi: The Young Lawyer Challenging Pakistan’s “Period Tax” in Court

For millions of Pakistani girls and women, menstruation is a monthly reality. But for many, managing it safely is also a question of Money, Access and Dignity. For Mahnoor Omer, a young lawyer from Rawalpindi, that reality became a constitutional question. In 2025, Omer filed a petition before the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench challenging the … Read more