This story charts the evolution of Pakistan’s feminist digital rights movement – a movement led and championed by Nighat Dad, a feminist digital rights activist helping women defend themselves online. It will begin with Nighat’s humble beginnings in the small northeastern town of Ratta Matta, her stint as a lawyer working in Pakistan’s seedy, male-dominated courtrooms, and continue to the creation of the Digital Rights Foundation, a Lahore-based nonprofit media watchdog that began Pakistan’s feminist digital rights movement and established the country’s first cyber harassment helpline.
By Aziza Ahmad and Zuha Siddiqui
