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In the heart of Islamabad’s sector G-9/2, a ‘Modern Mohalla’ emerges as a site of feminist agency and resistance, challenging patriarchal norms through everyday communal practices. This talk explores how subaltern women in Islamabad’s Government Housing Quarters have shaped their neighborhoods through informal, communal acts of ‘Mohalla-making’—raising a unique socio-spatial fabric amidst modernist structures. Using critical historiographic and ethnographic insights, Sidra Khokhar will discuss the intersection of formal and informal environments and how these spaces reflect lived experiences, feminist resilience and communal bonds in Pakistan’s evolving urban landscape.