Aurat March Karachi — History and Future

Karachi has been the heartbeat of Aurat March since the beginning. The city's women are its most visible, its most organised, and its most targeted.

Karachi's women's rights landscape

Karachi is both Pakistan's most cosmopolitan city and a place where women face daily harassment, violence, and exclusion. The contradictions are real. Women in DHA and Clifton live in a different world from women in Lyari and Orangi Town — but harassment follows all of them.

What Karachi women are demanding

• Safe public transport — buses and rickshaws where women are not groped or followed
• Street harassment accountability — catcalling, following, blocking paths
• Workplace protection — especially in informal sector work
• Digital safety — cybercrime, blackmail, sextortion
• Housing rights for women escaping abusive homes

Zinaaa and Karachi's women

Zinaaa was built in Karachi, for Karachi. The Sparks feature was designed specifically because Karachi women told us: I see people I'd want to meet but there's no safe way to signal interest. Zinaaa is that signal. On her terms. Always.