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    Retrieving women’s unheard voices from moni mohsin’sthe end of innocence
    (UMT Lahore, 2022) Muhammad Fahad Noor
    This dissertation examines the victims of brutal domestic violence depicted in The End of Innocence to which Pakistani women belonging to the lower social strata of Pakistani society are subjected. Males‘ othering of women as gender in Pakistani society is a prominent aspect. Moni Mohsin addresses the issue of these unheard voices by putting the story in the context of the 1971 war. The novel inspects the various causes behind the patriarchal norm of 'honour' killings and reads as how over the ages this practice has perpetuated its influence though mostly in rural and tribal sections of the country nonetheless in urban spaces it also configures rather endemically. The gender discrimination takes the form of moral policing of women‘s lives and bodies. In The End of Innocence, the central character Rani symbolizes the passivity of women unable to revoke centuries-old patriarchal norms. Therefore, Rani in the Pakistani context is a subaltern whose identity and freedom are hostage to the regimen of a patriarchal agency.