Karimabad showcases women revolution

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Karimabad, Pakistan: In a knife-filled workshop in the Krakuram mountains, a team of women in the cabinet is far from snatching-and makes an unexpected career for itself in Pakistan.

Women make only one part of Pakistan’s formal workforce. But a group of women -led businesses in a collection of villages sprayed along the old silk road between China and Afghanistan is denying expectations.

“We have 22 employees and have trained about 100 women,” said Bibi Amina, who started his carpentry workshop in 2008 at the age of 30.

The population of the Hanza Valley is close to 50,000, which is spread in the mountains, full of apricots, cherries, walnuts and mulberry gardens, followed by the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam.

The Ismailis are led by Aga Khan, who is now with a family who now has the roots of a Pakistani living in Europe.

The family opened a girls’ school in Hanza in 1946, which launched an educational investment that brought the valley’s literacy rate to 97 % for both men and women. At this rate, the average rate of 68 68 % for men and 52.8 % for women is very high. As a result, attitudes have changed, and women like Amina are playing an extended role.

Amina said about the generation in front of her, “People thought that women were there to wash utensils and wash clothes.”

Amana, a trained by the Aga Khan Foundation, later used his abilities to start his business to help the renovation of ancient height. Its carpenter is currently working on a commission from a luxurious hotel.

According to World Bank data, by 2024, only 23 % of women in Pakistan were formally part of the labor force.

In rural areas, women rarely work on formal employment, but most of the fields work hard to help the family farming income.

In a gallup survey published last year, one -third of the female respondents said their father or husband had forbidden them from taking a job, while 43.5 % said they had abandoned work to dedicate themselves to domestic work.

Cafe owner Lal Shehzadi headed the women’s restaurant business in Hanza.

She opened her cafe in the upper part of the High Street, wrapping her husband’s small army pension.

Sixteen years later, its simple setup in the valley’s view has become a famous tourist focus at night. She serves traditional foods to visitors, including yak meat, apricot oil and rich hill cheese.

“In the beginning, I used to work alone,” he said. “Now, 11 people work here and most of them are women. And my children are also working here.”

Following in the footsteps of the princess, Safina quit her job to start her restaurant a decade ago.

“No one wanted to help me,” he said. Finally, she convinced the family that she would sell two cows and some goats for the money needed to start her business.

Now, she earns about $ 170 a month, which is more than 15 times her previous income.

According to Sultan Madan, head of the Krakuram Area Development Organization and head of a local historian, Sultan Madan, compared to other rural areas of Pakistan, the social and economic progress of women in Hanza is driven by three factors.

“The main reason for this is a lot of literacy rate,” he told AFP.

“Secondly, agriculture was the backbone of the economy in the region, but the land was modest in Hanza and that is why women had to work in other sectors.”

The growing economic participation of women has spread to other fields of life like sports sectors.

“Every village in the valley has a women’s football team: Gojal, Gilmate, Paso, Khyber, Shamsel,” 17 -year -old Nadia Shams.

On the artificial pitch, she trains with her fellow fellow pants or shorts, which is forbidden somewhere by Pakistan’s dress code.

Here, one of the names is on everyone’s lips: former vice -captain of the national team Malika Noor, who scored the winner against the Maldives at the 2010 South Asian Women’s Football Championship.

When he witnessed the killer kick, Fahima Qayyum was six years old.

Today, after several international matches, she is recruiting the next generation.

“As a girl, I emphasize the importance of playing on others, because the game is great for health,” he told AFP. He told AFP.