Last week, Pakistan held its fashion week in Karachi, which is a city located about two hours by plane from the primary nesting place of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Despite threats from the Taliban and religious extremists in the south, the show still went on. This was the first fashion week Pakistan has hosted, with only Pakistan's very own designers, models and backstage crew.
The show was a great success, and a gesture of defiance to the Taliban and their views and approaches to women in the region and their preferences for the burqa despite the militant violence and security issues in the country. Some of Karachi's top designers displayed their clothes like Sonia Battla and others. I am doing my collage on this because I strongly believe in empowerment of Islamic women who have gone through lot of hardships and struggles because of the Taliban's rules regulating much of woman's rights, and them taking a stand with this display of some of Pakistan's best threads, models, textures and designers.
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