"Burqa fighter" fighting for girls' education in Pakistan

"Burqa fighter" fighting for girls' education in Pakistan

Expected to show a personal heroine superstar "Burca Avenger" or "burqa fighter" for the first time on Pakistani television next month.

This cartoon character used books, pens against the bad guys who are trying to close one of the schools in which they operate.

Working personal heroine hacks that wearing the burqa to fight the bad guys who hate school, where they appear to fight them at night while working in the morning, a teacher at the school.

Did not offer this cartoon series on television yet, but this character had begun to form a general impression in a country where an estimated rate of illiteracy among women by 12 percent, which complemented the sustenance of the Taliban campaign in which you remove the hundreds of girls from their schools in the northwest of the country.

And the development of the idea of ​​serial Pakistani pop singer Aaron Haroon Rashid, who initiated the public in the work of the application for the iPhone game of the same name.

Where they were producing a short animated video clip for marketing that application, but the main character in that game took another route to subsequently become a heroic figure in the serial Wharton consists of 13 episodes, and Saaijeri displayed on the TV screen "Geo" early next month.

Rashid said the BBC: "This is an exciting way to connect positive social messages in an effective manner to the children. Vchksah the" burqa fighter "is a great example greatly miss his ilk here in Pakistan."

"Without violence"

 

Spread video clips from the series between the users of social networking sites

This may vary with many of the ladies who work in the field of women's rights in Pakistan. The use of the burqa, which covers a woman's body from head to toe and often worn by ladies in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, is considered to be a controversial clothes in a country still suffering from the effects of religious extremism in the past decade.

As Murphy Sarmid, a journalist and human rights activist working in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, she believes that it is not true that portray a symbol of resistance from the lady wearing some clothes alleyway directly related to being a manifestation of the freedom of women in Pakistan.

She Sarmid: "catches you this series is that you can not get the power, but if I wore this dress, which represents injustice and oppression., Where degraded so much that women who Athalin courage in the conservative Pakistan, who Ijahdn for women's rights, education, justice, and They say "no" to such a form of stereotyping. "

Taha believes Iqbal, head of animation in Burca Avenger series, that everyone should wait until pending the serial Noor.

Iqbal where he sees it, and as is the case for any other supernatural hero, the burqa does not have anything to do with repression.

The spread video clips from the series between the users of social networking sites, even before the appearance of any promotional work issued by the official Black Unicorn production company owned by Aaron Rashid.

 

Serial children know some values ​​such as tolerance and equality

And that the series were produced over a period of more than a year, and has done production team consists of 22 people inside a small office in Islamabad.

Is also being published music videos, which includes some of the best artists of Pakistan musicians such as Ali Azmat, Josh, and Ali Zafar, will also display T-shirts and other sales in order to provide personalized Burca Avenger Pakistani champion figure superhero.

Aaron Rashid says that the idea of ​​this cartoon series centered around the girls' school, but also will serve to teach children some values ​​such as tolerance, equality and other social issues in Pakistani society.

Rashid also confirms that the central theme of the series revolves around non-violence, where he says that the main character in the series used books and pens in the face of enemies.

Rashid does not see that the Avatar in the series so complicated that it is difficult for children to understand.

He emphasizes: "tell us this character that the pen is sharper than the sword. As they do not resort to violence where books are used in the fight, while others used the bombs."