People in Pakistan call me Dabangg like Sallu, says Reham Khan
Between statements about misogyny and the need for gender empowerment in Pakistan, TV host and human rights activist Reham Khan fielded several questions about her 10-month marriage with her now ex-husband, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan.Speaking on the second day of the two-day India Today Conclave 2016 at the session, Line of Peace: Sisters Under the Skin Empowering Women across Borders, Reham plainly referred to her marriage as “a mistake”, reports India Today
Reham was joined on stage by actor/activist/politician Gul Panag and India Today’s Simi Pasha, who moderated the session.
Drawing from her experience, Reham entreated women to always speak up. “There is one thing that binds us together, which is the ‘hushed silence’. We hide the reality of our homes,” she remarked. “Inequality, misogyny starts at home,” she later added.
Reham further said, “I am a woman, I look like a woman, I behave like a woman. But people in Pakistan call me Dabangg like Sallu,” referring to the iconic cop character played by Salman Khan in 2010.
“What i loved in Pakistan is meeting the real people of Pakistan. I travelled through most of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, all the way to the border with Afghanistan and Balochistan and South Punjab. And I just like the way people dress up. I quite like the traditional chadar. I do that because it is the Pakistani identity, It’s the Pakhtun identity to wear a white chadar. It has nothing to do with an appearance for people.”What i loved in Pakistan is meeting the real people of Pakistan. I travelled through most of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, all the way to the border with Afghanistan and Balochistan and South Punjab. And I just like the way people dress up. I quite like the traditional chadar. I do that because it is the Pakistani identity, It’s the Pakhtun identity to wear a white chadar. It has nothing to do with an appearance for people.
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