An American Teenager’s Book on Pakistan Women Launches in US

It’s probably not all that remarkable that a young American went to Pakistan and found fascinating the traditions that define daily life there, from the calls to prayer to the garishly decorated transport trucks. This was the experience of Chiara Angela Kovarik, a Mendota Heights teenager who with her parents spent a month in Pakistan in summer 2001. Now, at 17, she has published her work in a 174-page book titled “Interviews with Muslim Women of Pakistan.” Her conclusion about Pakistani women: They want more opportunities for jobs and education but they don’t see themselves as oppressed.