Step aside, Wonderwoman: Pakistan (almost) 明かすs its first ever woman superhero... the Burka Avenger

• Burka Avenger is a 穏やかな-mannered teacher with secret 戦争の arts 技術s
• Uses a flowing 黒人／ボイコット burka to hide her 身元 as she fights 地元の 凶漢s
• Stops yobs 捜し出すing to shut 負かす／撃墜する the girls' school where she 作品
• 創造 of Pakistan pop 星／主役にする, who wants to 強調 importance of school
  

By Anna Edwards

Published: 13:33 BST, 27 July 2013 | Updated: 16:51 BST, 27 July 2013

Wonder Woman and Supergirl now have a Pakistani 相当するもの - the burka avenger

Wonder Woman and Supergirl now have a Pakistani 相当するもの in the pantheon of 女性（の） superheroes - albeit one who shows a lot いっそう少なく 肌.

会合，会う Burka Avenger: a 穏やかな-mannered teacher with secret 戦争の arts 技術s who uses a flowing bla ck burka to hide her 身元 as she fights 地元の 凶漢s 捜し出すing to shut 負かす／撃墜する the girls' school where she 作品.

In a 事例／患者 of art mirroring life, the 風刺漫画 is one that Pakistanis can only too 熱心に relate to - as their 教育の 会・原則s are 定期的に 的d by テロリストs.

The Taliban have blown up hundreds of schools and attacked 行動主義者s in Pakistan's northwest because they …に反対する girls' education.

The 交戦的なs 誘発するd 世界的な 激しい非難 last 落ちる when they 発射 Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old schoolgirl 行動主義者, in the 長，率いる in an 不成功の 試みる／企てる to kill her.

活動／戦闘 in the 'Burka Avenger' 風刺漫画 series, which is scheduled to start running on Geo TV in 早期に August, isthe first South Asian ninja who （権力などを）行使するs 調書をとる／予約するs and pens as 武器s.

The Urdu language show is the brainchild of one of Pakistan's biggest pop 星／主役にするs, Aaron Haroon Rashid - known to many as 簡単に Haroon - who conceived of it as a way to 強調する the importance of girls' education and teach children other lessons, such as 保護するing the 環境 and not 差別するing against others.

This last point is 批判的な in a country where Islamist 交戦的なs 行う repeated attacks on 宗教的な 少数，小数派s.

'Each one of our episodes is 中心d around a moral, which sends out strong social messages to kids,' Rashid said. 'But it is cloaked in pure entertainment, laughter, 活動／戦闘 and adventure.'

Burka Avenger is a teacher with secret 戦争の arts 技術s who uses a flowing 黒人／ボイコット burka to hide her 身元 as she fights those 捜し出すing to shut 負かす／撃墜する the girls' school where she 作品

Pakistani schoolgirls …に出席する a Karate class in Islamabad, Pakistan. The country 定期的に has to を取り引きする テロリストs 的ing its schools

The 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 着せる／賦与する the superhero in a 黒人／ボイコット burka - also often （一定の）期間d burqa, a 十分な-length 式服 一般的に worn by 保守的な Islamic women in Pakistan and Afghanistan - could raise eyebrows because some people 見解（をとる） the outfit as a 調印する of 圧迫.

The Taliban 軍隊d women to wear burkas when they took 支配（する）／統制する of Afghanistan in the 1990s.

The 見解／翻訳／版 worn by the Burka Avenger shows only her 注目する，もくろむs and fingers - though it has a sleeker, more ninjalike look than the bulky 式服s of an actual burka .

Rashid, who is certainly no 過激な Islamist, said he used a burka to give a 地元の feel to the show, which is 法案d as the first animated series ever produced in Pakistan.

'It's not a 調印する of 圧迫. She is using the burka to hide her 身元 like other superheroes,' said Rashid.

Pakistani 孤児s watch an 早期に 審査 of the first episode of the Burka Avenger series, at an orphanage on the 郊外s of Islamabad

The pl ot of the 風刺漫画 is a 戦う／戦い Pakistanis are all too familiar with in the real world

'Since she is a woman, we could have dressed her up like Catwoman or Wonder Woman, but that probably wouldn't have worked in Pakistan.'

The series is 始める，決める in Halwapur, a fictional town nestled in the 急に上がるing mountains and verdant valleys of northern Pakistan.

The Burka Avenger's true 身元 is Jiya, whose 可決する・採択するd father, Kabbadi Jan, taught her the karate moves she uses to 敗北・負かす her enemies.

When not garbed as her alter ego, Jiya does not wear a burka, or even a いっそう少なく 保守的な headscarf over her hair

A group of 孤児s who were 供給するd an 早期に 審査 of the first episode at an orphanage on the 郊外s of Islamabad laughed and 元気づけるd as the Burka Avenger vanquished her enemies.

Ten year-old Samia Naeem said she liked the crusading ヘロイン 'because she saved kids' lives, she 動機づけるd them for education and school.'

Rashid, the pop 星／主役にする, 基金d much of the program himself, but also had help from an outside 寄贈者 who preferred not to be credited.

He てこ入れ／借入資本d his musical background in the 過程. Each of the 13 episodes 完全にするd so far 含む／封じ込めるs songs written and 成し遂げるd by him and other major Pakistani 激しく揺する 星／主役にするs, such as Ali Azmat and Ali Zafar. Rashid is producing an album of 10 songs and music ビデオs that will be broadcast と一緒に the show. He has also created a Burka Avenger iPhone game and a fully interactive website that will …を伴って the show's 開始する，打ち上げる.

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