[10][11][12][13] Aurat Azadi March is held in different cities of Pakistan to fight against oppressive forms of social, economic and political structures (imperialism, patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism) against women whereas Aurat March is held with a purpose to fight the harassment and violence, minority rights and for economic, environmental and reproductive justice.
[14][15][16] According to Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, the ongoing struggle for women and oppressed genders amounts to significant progressive movement in Pakistan history.
[17] '...why we need an alternative ideology, which believes inthe principle ofequality and justice....which can guaranteepolitical, social, economic,and individual rights...of all genders.
[17] Akhtar says in Pakistan, women and transpeople do face to all type of discrimination, abuse and violence in everyday life; what is reported in the news media is just the tip of the iceberg, and patriarchal norms are internalized in Pakistan's male dominated society, that includes some conservative women too, asking for freedom from oppression is considered almost kind of a sacrilege and charges of impropriety are hurled at supporters of Aurat Azaadi March those who strive for freedom from oppression nevertheless bears a heavy cost.
[17] Farkhanda Shahid Khan criticises patriarchal social fabric of the country and asserts that we march for Azadi, demanding freedom from patriarchy, violence, and oppression.
After the foundation congress, the participants held the March from the press club to Nazimudin Road raising slogans against war, violence, exploitation of working-class women and anti-women tribal and feudal traditions.
A petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court to stop Aurat Azadi March 2020 which was rejected by Chief justice Athar Minallah.
It was attended by women from the Jamaat-e-Islami, JUI-F, Lal Masjid, and female students of different seminaries including Jamiat Hafsa, staged as Haya March.
[47][48][49][50] In Sukkur, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) urged the local administration and the government to stop the women's march, calling it "vulgarity" and against the law, Constitution, culture and Islam.
[53] Aurat Azadi March Islamabad manifesto asks for economic justice for women, reallocation of non combative defence budget to be diverted to social programmes with a theme devoted to "feminist care in the times of the COVID 19 crisis".
[75] Pakistan Peoples Party's secretary general Farhatullah Babar asked the government to protect the march organizers from violent threats and false allegations.
[78][70] A local court in Peshawar ordered registering a First Information Report (FIR) against the organisers of Aurat Azadi March, Islamabad.
[82][83] In April, 2021, sessions courts of Lahore and Islamabad dismissed the petitions seeking to register case against organizers and participants of Women's March.