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Zahida: On the way with Pakistan's first taxi driver | Pakistan
Zahida became Pakistan's first taxi rider and a locals legendary in 1992. "She thinks, my Iife is a great struggle." "It'?s a crime to be a girl in Pakistan... It's simple for men. Regardless of how hardworking a wife works, they say this is a wife's income. While juggling maternity with driving pleasure, driving her clients around town, fighting with masculine taxi riders, talking about women's rolls and privileges, and fighting for customs, the witnesses follow Zahida.
Away from the street, in calm tranquillity, she chants back reminiscent poetic nostalgia and contemplates her destiny.
Rosy cabs for woman use only, to drive on the roads of Pakistan.
As of Thursday, the taxi company - named Tink Taxi - can be reached by telephone, via a portable application, text message or just by calling on the streets, said Ambreen Sheikh, who starts the company with her man Zahid Sheikh. "Our pilot's (drivers) are wearing a rose shawl and a dark robe as uniforms.
The commute in the 20 million town is often a torture for a woman. Karachi's Urban Resource Center reported that most woman commuteers experience some kind of molestation when using urban transportation. Now Noor Jehan, a new pink taxi rider, first worked as a servant girl and then as a rider for her feminine employ.
Said there was a need for such a facility, as most females "think three times" before getting into a male driving car. According to a survey by the International Labour Organisation, the vast majority ofthe female population in Pakistan does not take part in the world of work, although a shortage of secure transport is one of the major hindrances.
Mr Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, transportation secretary in Sindh provincial, where Karachi is situated, admitted that the use of mass transit by female citizens was subject to hostilities and molestation. "A means of private transportation that provides them alone can resolve many of their traffic problems," he said on TV. Zebunnisa Burki, a reporter living in Karachi, said many urban girls could not possibly pay for a taxi.
"Womens oriented transportation is important because it serves a burgeoning demographics of female mobility," she said via e-mail. The Sheikh said the pink taxi ride would be expanded to the towns of Lahore and Islamabad in the next three to four month, followed by other parts of the state. "She said, "A lady can't be sitting in a taxi driving a man and begin a relaxed talk without worrying that it will be confused with some kind of leaning towards him.