Critical exploitation

Women are respectable in society and our religion Islam also taught us to care, adore, love and cherish them and to provide them with their social and moral rights.

But behind the curtain, we men sexually harass them, mentally and physically torture them, abuse them, snatch their social and moral rights and we call ourselves “men”; just because of these evil powers.

As we men are physically strong, just because of this we think that we are not obliged to encircle these females and to adore them and regard them. The only thing we know is to produce kids for them and then to destroy their lives and treat them as au pairs.

When we go further, another innocent class of sensitive personalities in society is children. I hate child to be abused. Children are innocent, but it doesn’t mean that we should ignore our duty to give them proper attention.

Child abuse consists of any act or failure of act that imperils a child’s physical, emotional or mental health and development.

We anti-social personalities doesn’t even leave them, but to yield our desires we play with the lives of these innocent creatures as well’ and we criticize them, beat them, insult them, tease them, burn their bodies with cigarettes, scalding water, hot objects and acids and even we sexually harass the, rape them and sodomize them.

But still, this is not the limit, we force these virtuous, sinless and naives to serve as servants and child soldiers or militants for rebel groups and separatists movements. We make them to involve in crimes such as corruption, drug trafficking, robbery, theft, assassination and homicide, etc.

We make these kids beggars and make them taken-hand. Rather we should provide pencils in their little hands but when I see around, they are labouring, just for a penny to buy breads and bring food for their families and we are just filling our pockets.

We are too selfish and are not concerned with anyone that we can’t care anyone. Our needs are increasing day-by-day and to fulfil them we are hoggishly filling our pockets. We are criminals and we are corrupt.

Youth now become spendthrift and squanderer and spend their money on alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and other drugs. Our youth is depending on their parent’s wealth only. Similarly, elders in our society are also corrupt. They do smuggling, black marketing, piracies, human trafficking and other illicit activities.

In our society, richer is becoming richer. But so-called liberals egocentrically are ampler and want their lives more and more lavish and profuse, not worrying and soliciting about the rest of the civilisation.

We became ravenous and are so greedy that we exploit the rights of most respectful class of society ie elders. We abuse elders just because of their frail and vulnerable nature. Those who commit this crime are mostly closest to them and have the opportunity to take full advantage of them.

Elderly abuse may involve telemarketing fraud, identity theft, predatory lending and transferring of power of autonomy. Impudent and brazen personage of crowd destroys and devastates the dignity and respect of graves and dead.

These anti-social characters are so shameless that they ridicule and play with these blameless bodies and they sexually abuse them.

I really don’t know why they do so? I think they are psychologically unstable and are emotionless. But exploitation not stops here; we find a bunch of people that exploits their own selves by offering their bodies just for money.

This vulgar class is the master of sexploitation and they called themselves actors/actresses of stage-films or pornography.

I know that I also exploit the feelings and emotions of anti-social personalities in our society, I did this all for a social cause and I want betterment in the behaviours, manners, actions and emotions of the social animals present in our society, I am really ashamed of all that brutishness, cruelty and inhumanities happening, are you?

AHMAD RAZA KHAN (RAWALPINDI)

Source: BUSINESS RECORDER

Gender-based reforms

Sir: Pakistan has always undergone some kind of reform(s) whenever a government has changed. Mostly these reforms are focused towards the economy or energy productivity.

From nationalisation to privatisation and from rental power plants to independent power plants, Pakistan has experienced quite a lot of changes. But what has not been reformed in Pakistan is the gender-based macro level reforms. Such reforms simply refer to those policies that should encompass women while formulating other policies so that the role of women is highlighted and the governmental policies are such that provide a better platform for the women of this country.

AROOSA SHAQUAT
Lahore

Source:

Children and women in FATA

Sir: The drone strikes and insurgency in the tribal belt of Pakistan have left hundreds of orphans and widows behind. Their lives have been completely changed due to insurgency and displacement.

There are such families in almost every village who have lost all their male members. Now the head of these families are either women or even children. Both of them are in a bad condition. Women cannot travel unescorted and serving their families has become a serious issue for them.

They face difficulties such as financial, business-related, medical treatment and access to their rights while young children have to face food shortage, no education and guidance facilities, psychological pressures and illnesses and inadequate care. Children are even working as labourers both inside and outside these areas while at some places landmines have also injured some of them.

These hapless women and children are now the responsibility of our government. It should order the political administration in these areas to conduct a survey of each and every such family and make arrangements required for their welfare. Women must be given support to run their households decently while the children be given full care, food and education.

They are going through the worst phase of their lives. Leaving them unprotected and uncovered by the government would give birth to many other social and economic problems in our society.

LALARUKH ZAMAN
Islamabad

Source: DAILY TIMES

Another Hindu girl forced to convert

KARACHI: Another Hindu girl has been abducted, converted and forcibly married off in the Lyari area of the city, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) reported on Thursday.

What makes this incident sound more appalling is the alleged involvement of a police constable in the forced conversion of the 15-year-old girl, who has been finally recovered after her father lodged an FIR at the Baghdadi police station.

As the girl, Bharati, remains in custody at the women police station in Saddar for further investigations, her father alleges that she has been converted and married off against her will.

Amarnath of the HRCP says that the girl has been threatened not to revert to her original religion or else she would be liable to a death penalty. “As a result, she is confused and is scared to go back home.”

According to her father, Narayan Das, Bharti went missing on December 12, after she accompanied her friend to a nearby store in the Baghdadi area of Lyari. “She used to learn stitching at a training centre in the area. As soon as she came back home around noon, one of her friends came and asked her mother to let her accompany her. After that we didn’t see her for two days.”

In whatever little time he got to speak to her, Das says his daughter is scared and confused. “She fears that we’ll be killed as well if she reverts (to her religion) and she cried copiously when I tried to console her.”

Das alleges that a “notorious” police constable, Abid son of Anwar, was behind her abduction and conversion. “He is known as an alcoholic,” as well as “good for nothing”, Das claims.

He filed an application with the Baghdadi police station on December 15 and it was not until of December 18 that the police registered an FIR. The Baghdadi police confirmed that an FIR under section 365—B was registered on the day mentioned by the father.

They, however, refuted the claim made by Das that Bhartai had been forcibly converted. “Both the girl and the boy, Abid, are in police custody and they have a certificate of marriage which was registered after the girl was converted at the Jamia Binnoria as Ayesha.”

Das refuses to accept the police version and claims that the age of her 15-year-old daughter has been changed in the marriage certificate. He is waiting for the case to be heard at a sessions court today (Friday).

Amarnath says that forced conversion of Hindu women in Karachi as well as Sindh has become a common phenomenon. “There is no one to listen to the ordeal of the families,” he says.

Source: THE NEWS

Bill in PA on women’s ownership rights

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly will legislate to protect and secure the right of ownership of women of their movable and immovable property.

Pakistan People’s Party MPA Noor Sahar introduced “The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Enforcement of Women Ownership Rights Bill, 2011” in the assembly on Thursday that proposed to declare deprivation of women of their ownership as a penal offence punishable up to five years imprisonment and fine of Rs50,000.

The bill says that Islamic Sharia provides equal guarantee for the protection of life and property of men and women whereas the Constitution and Section 5 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sharia Act, 2003 enjoins upon the government to legislate with respect to the protection of the said right.

It says that Sharia gives due respect to women in society and guarantees their right of ownership. The mover said that the right of ownership of women was at stake in the society and such rights were violated by means of coercion, fraud, fabrication, forgery and cheating. It was necessary to protect and secure the said rights of women in society, she added.

The bill defines the ‘ownership’ as the right of ownership in the property both movable and immovable, which is devolved upon and vested in women by way of inheritance, gift, purchase, mehr or acquired by them by way of any other legal and Sharia means. It proposes that no person shall abridge, violate, curtail or obstruct the right of ownership or possession of a woman, nor shall he dispossess any woman of her property save in accordance with the law.

According to the bill whenever a woman files a suit, the court shall decide the case in six months and district police shall hand over possession within one month of decision of court failing which the said officer shall be charged under Section 5.

Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Arshad Abdullah did not oppose the bill.

MPA Abdul Akbar Khan withdrew The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Malicious Accusation Discouraging Bill, 2011 after law minister told the house that government was already working on the issue and would bring a bill very soon. MPA Mohammad Zameen Khan also withdrew The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2011.

Earlier, Awami National Party MPA Saqibullah Khan Chamkani through a call attention notice expressed serious concern over deteriorating law and order situation in the suburban localities of provincial capital.

He complained that police had failed to curb lawlessness in the surroundings of Kohat Road and its adjacent areas. He said that the area had become ‘no go zone’ and robbers, kidnappers and other criminal gangs had been given free hand. The lawmaker said that activists of Lashkar-i-Islam, a militant group based in Khyber Agency, were also involved in kidnapping for ransom.

Source: DAWN