Women rally to save Pakistan’s taboo-busting ‘Oprah show’

Crowdfunder allows Kanwal Ahmed to keep sharing advice on sex, violence... and cooking

A social media star has been dubbed Pakistan's Kickstarter Oprah after her groundbreaking digital talk show in which women talk about taboo issues such as marital rape, cyberbullying and femicide was saved by fans.

Filming started this week on the new series of Conversations With Kanwal, in which presenter Kanwal Ahmed, 31, sheds light on issues that are rarely talked about within families, let alone in the public arena, after fans raised more than five million rupees (around 23,000) in less than a week using the online crowdfunding platform.