If we had no calendars and no diaries, if the names of the months were unknown to us and we had no memory for dates and the days of the week, we could still measure time. Not through devising some other means of recording the passage of the years - not even through keeping note of the seasons as they come and go - but through the milestones of violence that we, as women, experience daily. We could remember the years, keep record of our histories by saying “that was the year when Zainab Noor's body was mutilated and destroyed by her Imam Masjid husband or that was the summer that a member of parliament forcibly shut down girl's schools in Kaghan valley.”

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