LAHORE, Pakistan ¨C Pakistani student Laiba Rashid, 22, hopes her life will change once she learns how to drive a motorcycle after undergoing a training program that teaches women how to operate two-wheelers in the bustling eastern city of Lahore.
Although the program is 7 years old, it¡¯s rare to see women driving motorcycles. Women driving cars or riding pillion on two-wheelers driven by a male relative is more socially acceptable in the conservative, Islamic nation.
¡°I hope this will change my life because I am dependent on my brother to pick me up and drop me to college,¡± Rashid said on her first day at the Women on Wheels (WOW) driving program offered free by the Lahore traffic police.
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