Pashtun filmmaker Samar Khan honored at United Nations event

[Toramana]

http://tribune.com.pk/story/880729/pashtun-filmmaker-samar-khan-honored-at-united-nations-event/

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Pashtun filmmaker Samar Khan honored at United Nations event



Pashtun filmmaker Samar Minallah Khan was honoured at the sixth annual Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) Awards held on April 25th at the United Nations Headquarters. The awards were created in 2010 by fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation to honor and support extraordinary women.

The honorees at the United Nations event also included journalist and human rights activist Melanne Verveer who is the first-ever ambassador-at-large for women’s issues at the US Department of State; former US Representative Gabby Giffords and founder of ‘Women in Business’ Adi Tafuna’i.

“I am so privileged to know them and to shed light on their important accomplishments,” Diane told Style.com.

The event, which is held annually, was also attended by US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, actresses Dakota Fanning, Maggie Gyllenhaal and supermodel Naomi Campbell.



“If we just look at women as victims we will never see them for the leaders they are,” Verveer told the crowd at the event. “The situation for women in the world is not what it should be. And we are regressing,” she added, citing violence against women and human trafficking as pressing concerns. “Let us remember, if we have a voice, it is our obligation and privilege to use that voice for those who have none,” she said.

[tilla_jogian]

Pashtun or pashtana?

[Khostai]

Never heard of her, can you post some of her movies?

[tripledouble]

she's patriotic pakistani, just go see her twitter

[tripledouble]

Never heard of her, can you post some of her movies?

her movie r boring documentaries about womens rights & blah blah

[Yousufzai]

her movie r boring documentaries about womens rights & blah blah

They're the other half of the population. Fighting for their rights is important if you want to live in the 21st century, instead of being a Neanderthal.

[DaZahroJaam.]

if you dedicate your life to educating a population and the only way they hear of you is by you receiving some fancy assed award, you are not doing your job right.

[tilla_jogian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samar_Minallah

She is Pakistani and live in Islamabad.

Samar Minallah Khan is an anthropologist and a documentary film maker from Pakistan. In the media, she has been referred to as ‘The Savior of Soul’, ‘Women who rock the world’, ‘The Crusader with the Camera’ and ‘Women that changed Pakistan’.
Samar has been a pioneer in using film and other innovative mediums of communication for social change in Pakistan. Having an MPhil degree in Anthropology and Development from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, her work focuses on a culturally sensitive approach to development. Samar has over 20 years of progressive experience in advocacy, women and children’s causes, anthropological documentation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, social change, working in and with different media.
Her commitment to ending compensation marriages in Pakistan goes a decade back.
One of her documentaries ‘Swara—A Bridge over Troubled Waters’ has won several national and international awards for breaking the silence around a practice that violates rights of girl child and women. It helped in legislation against a culturally sanctioned form of violence against minor girls. Her media advocacy to bring to attention various forms of compensation marriages and other forms of human rights violations has led to policy changes and a change in the mindsets of the people.
Samar has widely traveled to speak at national and international events. She serves on various advisory boards and is recipient of prestigious awards. She serves on various advisory boards.


http://samarminallahkhan.com/

God bless her.

[Toramana]

Mr. Jogian and Mr. tripletrouble What is Pakistan? It is neither a particular culture nor a specific dress nor a language and nor ethnicity. It is merely the name of a geography arbitrarily fixed by Sir Mutamer Durand and Redcliffe for their imperial interests that later they handed to the mercenaries they created and trained for their colonial wars the world over.

There was no Pakistan in history before 1947 and every body was Hindustani.

Ultimately we are what we really are; Pashtuns, Punjabis, Sindhis, Baluchis, etc.

You are Punjabi ultimately; she is a Pashtun; that is a fact you cannot conceal with transitional notions like Pakistani etc.

That doesn't mean we cannot live together.

What I mean is the basis of Pakisyani nationhood is constitution and nothing which alas Punjabi est has trampled under its feet time and again.

[tilla_jogian]

Mr. Jogian and Mr. tripletrouble What is Pakistan? It is neither a particular culture nor a specific dress nor a language and nor ethnicity. It is merely the name of a geography arbitrarily fixed by Sir Mutamer Durand and Redcliffe for their imperial interests that later they handed to the mercenaries they created and trained for their colonial wars the world over.

There was no Pakistan in history before 1947 and every body was Hindustani.

Ultimately we are what we really are; Pashtuns, Punjabis, Sindhis, Baluchis, etc.

You are Punjabi ultimately; she is a Pashtun; that is a fact you cannot conceal with transitional notions like Pakistani etc.

That doesn't mean we cannot live together.

What I mean is the basis of Pakisyani nationhood is constitution and nothing which alas Punjabi est has trampled under its feet time and again.

What if she is kammi kameen like you who happen to speak pashto? She is Paki and live in Federal capital. Can't get more paki then that.

Never run away from your real roots piracha.

[tripledouble]

They're the other half of the population. Fighting for their rights is important if you want to live in the 21st century, instead of being a Neanderthal.

she's those kinda women who expose eastern pashtuns and pakistani culture to show how misogynist we are to the angrez ppl, it's fashionable nowadays

[tripledouble]

if you dedicate your life to educating a population and the only way they hear of you is by you receiving some fancy assed award, you are not doing your job right.

shes well known in pakistan, maybe unknown in afghanistan

[tripledouble]

[SIZE="3"]Mr. Jogian and Mr. tripletrouble What is Pakistan? It is neither a particular culture nor a specific dress nor a language and nor ethnicity.

we are multicultural country, with some commonalities, most our languages are part of Indo-European family, almost all Pakistani women wear shalwar kameez with it's own variation; Pukhtun have a bit unique variation but still similar pattern; the balochi dress is very close to shalwar kameez

All Pakistani mard wear shalwar kurta, so that is anoher commonality

It is merely the name of a geography arbitrarily fixed by Sir Mutamer Durand and Redcliffe for their imperial interests that later they handed to the mercenaries they created and trained for their colonial wars the world over.

They only drew the boundaries, borders always get drawn in history but Pakistan is an idea in Iqbal's word or in Great Imran Khan word, even Hyrbyar marri in interview admitted that pakistan was a "soch" or "nafsiath" but he don't share that idea so that's why he's opposed, so don't take away fact we're an idea, and you can never kill ideas said great Malala

There was no Pakistan in history before 1947 and every body was Hindustani.

yes but proto-pakistan existed, names change but land is the same, we inherit that history of our forefathers, like afghanistan didn't exist as a name thousands of years ago but they inherit the history of proto populations.

Republic of india no exist before '47, it's British india and before british came there was no country or nation call india or "hindustani", hindustani was just regional label foreigners like Arabs and Persians gave and Europeans gave name of India, but were never one unified entity or nation except 3 times in history(maurya,mughal and british rule) but majority of history we were separate,

Ultimately we are what we really are; Pashtuns, Punjabis, Sindhis, Baluchis, etc.

yeah we have ethnic identity and then national identity which is Pakistani, identities can be multi-tiered

You are Punjabi ultimately; she is a Pashtun; that is a fact you cannot conceal with transitional notions like Pakistani etc.

i'm hindkowan, but doesn't matter, Samar lives in Isloo she is from the urban stock of Pakistan who have come with new production of Pan-Pakistani identity, she have more in common with me and tilla than with some kabuli or qandahari or even kabylie

That doesn't mean we cannot live together.

of course, even before pakistan was made or before brits came, interactions and migrations always existed, we coexisted under different empries

What I mean is the basis of Pakisyani nationhood is constitution and nothing which alas Punjabi est has trampled under its feet time and again.

There are little things that make up Pakistaniyat but u don't seem to notice; when Pakistani cricket team come in sabz uniform in give adrenalin pump to whole country, two months ago i was watching Pakistan football qualifier against yemen for world cup, and even baloch friends who weren't patriotic were rooting for the shaheens to win, there are other things like shared expierinece of living or growing up in a country and stuff

[tilla_jogian]

They only drew the boundaries, borders always get drawn in history but Pakistan is an idea in Iqbal's word or in Great Imran Khan word, even Hyrbyar marri in interview admitted that pakistan was a "soch" or "nafsiath" but he don't share that idea so that's why he's opposed, so don't take away fact we're an idea, and you can never kill ideas said great Malala

[tilla_jogian]

she's those kinda women who expose eastern pashtuns and pakistani culture to show how misogynist we are to the angrez ppl, it's fashionable nowadays

Issues exist and highliting them is important, but i get it from where you are coming from. Most of the times "white people" only want to see that part of the world. Thats why white people loved "slumdog millionaire" but will never watch random bollywood movie.

If one reads foreigners blog who visit Pakistan. They will not like Islamabad, instead they like less developed and dirtier city beside ISB which Rawalpindi.