{"id":32421,"date":"2019-02-09T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32421"},"modified":"2019-02-09T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T07:22:58","slug":"a-cafe-giving-hope-to-women-in-pakistans-lyari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32421","title":{"rendered":"A cafe giving hope to women in Pakistan&#8217;s Lyari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"74\">\n<p><strong>Karachi, Pakistan<\/strong> &#8211; Set up in 2017, the Lyari Girls Cafe is located on the roof of a block of residential flats on a street called Phool Patti (petal) Lane.<\/p>\n<p>The bullet-poked walls of the buildings around the cafe are a reminder of Lyari&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>The area suffered at least two decades of conflict and almost became an adjective to describe Karachi&#8217;s violence.<\/p>\n<p>But this cafe, giving hope to female residents, offers English language classes. Makeup and hairstyling lessons are delivered in Kachchi, the language spoken by many in the area.<\/p>\n<p>There are computer classes in Urdu and guest lectures on topics ranging from mental health to photojournalism and cybercrime laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video by: Faras Ghani<\/p>\n<p>Text by: Zehra Abid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Pakistan &#8211; Set up in 2017, the Lyari Girls Cafe is located on the roof of a block of residential flats on a street called Phool Patti (petal) Lane. The bullet-poked walls of the buildings around the cafe are a reminder of Lyari&#8217;s past. The area suffered at least two decades of conflict and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}