Even though the Gender-Ratio in Pakistan in 2011 is 1.09, Women do not really constitute a minority! Secondly the dynamics of this oppression are different than say in the case of ethnic, religious, sectarian and political minorities in Pakistan. In the case of such minorities the issue is often of 'they vs. us', a case of vertical fissures, but in the case of women, every household in Pakistan has women and the divide is more horizontal.
Nowhere in the World are the women so abused and oppressed as in Pakistan! This thread serves to monitor and highlight the plight of those women! Often there are news reports, but these get lost in the paper and digital graveyard. This thread serves to keep a record of barbarity that takes place in Pakistani households and in Pakistani society systematically. Often Pakistani tend to take their oppressive ways with them even when they migrate abroad, and such incidents should also be monitored.
This thread should serve as a ready reference for the Human Rights organizations of the world, to take Pakistan to task. In the Free World, there are many Women's rights organizations which are politically influential and active trying to highlight the issues as well as trying to rectify the situation. Right-minded Pakistanis who wish to bring about change in their country can also profit from this Monitor Thread.
This purpose of this thread is not to disparage Islam, and as such any analysis of this oppression, where the poster believes that causes lie in Islam, please be kept to a minimum! Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
Pakistanis who wish to highlight this serious issue are also encouraged to contribute to this thread.
The hope is that the Moderators would permit the Monitoring of this serious Human Rights issue in Pakistan and allow this thread a prominent position on this Forum, but as always it is their prerogative!
Considering how much women contribute to families and society, we owe it to them to highlight their oppression in Pakistan.
A Swiss prosecutor has described as a "veritable slaughter" the vicious axe murder of a 16-year-old girl by her 53-year-old Pakistani father, who believed his daughter had tarnished her family's honour.
The charge sheet presented by prosecutor Ulrich Krättli suggests he will call for the accused to be given life in prison, the maximum sentence under Swiss law, when the high-profile case goes to trial on March 14th.
Asian Human Rights Commission claim girl was lured on shopping trip by friend before she was kidnapped.
Abductors drove her 120 miles before raping her, then forced her to sign marriage papers
Victim managed to escape eight months later, but police refuse to prosecute rapists because they are tied to militant Islam group
Re: Oppression of Women in Pakistan
Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:03
by RajeshA
Originally posted by SBajwa
An old article copy/paste from the marxist site but this article belongs here (not posting the link as I do not believe in marxism and do not want to propagate their causes)
Women in Pakistan - Victims of the social and economic desecration
Written by Sadaf Zahra Monday, 10 October 2005
The South Asian Indian subcontinent is the least gender sensitive region in the world. It is the only region in the world where men outnumber women. The sex ratio is 105.7 men to every 100 women. In Pakistan, women are not only subjected to financial discrimination, but they are also victims of inhuman customs and laws such as Karo Kari, Hadood ordinance, Qasas and marriage to the Quran and half witnesses according to the state law (whereby in court a female witness is only worth half a male witness).
In the rural areas, women are like slaves subject to drudgery. They are there just to obey their fathers, brothers and husbands. They do not have the right to decide about themselves because women are considered as foolish creatures according to the dominant social and cultural norms. Likewise marriage is also a sort of trade between different families both in the rural and urban areas. They are highly vulnerable to violation of their rights to life.
A woman's right to liberty is restricted in the name of modesty, protection and prevention of immoral activity. In rural areas 90% of women work in the fields. They work for the whole day with their male family members, but they still have to face their wrath. Male family members keep a strict eye on the female family members in the name of "honour". But one must understand the meaning of honour because in our society honour does not have the meaning of its true sense. Here it really means possession of women as a form of property. Not only are the restrictions of women's liberty maintained in the name of this honour (ghairat) but they also can be put to death if they lose their "honour".
Karo Kari is the form of honour killings. Last year 286 women were murdered in the name of honour by the male family members (and these are only the registered cases). On 11th June 2000, four women and one man were killed in the Dera Jamali village in Sindh. Last year on the same dates a 13 year old girl, Sara, was subjected to this honour killing in Goth Khosa. Two young boys Imtiaz and Arshad were also killed in the same case. The boys had never met the young girl in their lives. But the brother of Sara declared it an honour killing to get less punishment in law. This law also gives some leniency to the killers in such cases. He actually wanted to grab the land of these boys and used this accusation to kill the boys along with his sister.
In the village of Moratha there was a case of Karo Kari(honour killing). The motive of the killing was that the murderer wanted to marry a married woman. He killed the husband of that woman and his own innocent sister and he was released from jail after a few months.
Many of the cases of Karo Kari are related to love marriage. Recently a woman with her little child of five months, husband and four other members of her in-laws, was killed because she had committed the crime of love marriage. Most of the women in Pakistan are not allowed to marry a person of their choice.
There are hundreds of such cases, that are not registered. But if we go to the root cause of these honour killings we see that they are linked to the question of land, water, money and property. But again, only the women of the poor classes are victims of this inhuman custom of Karo Kari. This custom is seldom implemented against rich women.
In the Punjab brothers, fathers and husbands subject 82% of women to domestic violence. The incidence of wife-battering is so common that it is not even recognised as a pernicious form of violence against women. Even in the cases where women receive serious injuries and want to file complaints, they are advised by the police to reconcile with their husbands, as any matrimonial dispute would bring dishonour to them.
This violence against women begins in their childhood. They are not allowed to play games like boys that can help in their speedy mental and physical developmentment. Another practice common in Pakistan, is cutting off a women's nose if she is suspected of having an extra-marital relationship. Sexual assault on women, including rape, remains one of the most common crimes. The Human Rights Commission estimated that rape occurs every three hours. No estimate, however, can be made of the numerous cases that go unreported.
The Islamic Penal Law "Hadood Ordinance" repealed the provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code related to rape cases, in 1979. The Islamic Law of evidence applicable to cases of rape requires the evidence of four adult male Muslims, in order for the penalty of hadood to be imposed upon the accused. Being a half witness by law the raped woman can't even testify against the crime committed against her. According to these laws, testimony of the victim requires strong corroboration for conviction by the court. On the other hand, where sexual intercourse is established but the absence of consent cannot be proved, the presumption that such intercourse occurred with the woman's consent can place her at the risk of prosecution. In both cases, adultery or rape, a woman is kept in jail pending the ruling of the court. 52% of women languishing in the jails of Pakistan are waiting for their fate in these cases. In the case of a woman marrying without the consent of her family, the marriage can be declared invalid and the couple would then be accused of the offence of zina (adultery).
If the women victimized by the offenders contact the law (the police) and the other investigating agencies, the women of the oppressed classes are subject to police brutality and crimes like rape are often carried out while in custody. The incidence of sexual assault on women in police custody increased after the implementation of these Islamic laws.
Another law, "Qasas", is also used to victimize women, because under this law if a person kills somebody and the family of the victim compromises with the killer then they are paid an agreed amount of money, land and of course women by the assassin's family.
Marriage to the Holy Quran (the holy book of Islam) is also common in Sindh. Under this law a woman has to live without a husband throughout her life. But this law is only applied among the class of landlords. They use this only to keep and grab the land of their sisters and daughters.
But if we look at the history of Pakistan, we find several women's movements against these criminal laws and customs. But these movements are mostly dominated by the NGOs (Non Government Organisations). And the tragedy of the NGOs is that they believe in this system, its state and its laws. They respect the Judiciary as well as the state. They do not have a way out except. they simply appeal to the ruling elite and their state to pass such laws that can abolish discrimination against women within society. But the oppression of women is rooted within the system itself. In ancient times the women produced food for the family. In that era women had learned how to cultivate the land. Men used to hunt only. That is why women had a particular recognition in society. And over a period of time she became the head of the family. Even goddesses outnumbered gods in religion.
With the passage of time men learned the cultivation procedure and became dominant in the productive process. Thus matriarchal society, a society where women dominated, withered away. The new forms of property changed the inheritance to men and hence established male domination. After the introduction of this system of private ownership woman gradually became a commodity and hence possessed as private property. These forms developed over time and the exploitation of women continued in different patterns.
It is only with the rapid advancement of technology that want can be abolished and the psychology of dearth and greed can give way to a psychology of possession free consciousness. This will ultimately free women from the bondage of domestic labour and the stigma of being inferior human beings.
At the present time Capitalism has created a society of want and greed in which human beings have to live a life of cut-throat competition in order to survive. In countries like Pakistan it has also failed to bridge the gap between the rural and urban areas. It has failed to develop different regions evenly and penetrate modernity into rural sections of the population.
Basic needs such as education, health water supply and transport, etc., are inadequate. On the other hand there is the penetration of all forms of the latest technology, like satellite television, which has distorted the patterns of social and cultural development of these areas. In villages we can see clear forms of combined and uneven development. T.V and satellite is available but tools and methods of farming are thousands of years old. These deformed patterns of development have further aggravated the lives of women in the rural areas. Social life in the countryside and the urban centres has not changed in any spectacular way. It has actually worsened.
This intense social crisis manifests itself in the sharp rise in the molestation of women, gang rape and violent crimes against women, both in the rural and urban areas.
The same case applies to the third world countries where Capitalism has failed to carry out any of its historical tasks. Out-dated customs are still practiced and have not been eradicated. In the cities, out-dated customs have much less of an influence, because of the fact that women are playing a major role in the generation of family income. They do not carry out "unpaid labour" like rural women. But they are also facing daunting challenges and problems in the cities.
Even in the advanced countries the exploitation and harassment of women on the basis of gender is rampant.
But the question arises: how long will this continue? Will the women's movements only confine themselves to mere appeals and demonstrations or will all the existent order have to change? In this system of private ownership of the means of production (i.e. capitalism), woman has been reduced to a commodity. The rottenness of the system is evident from the fact that sex has become the third largest industry in the world. The double exploitation of women cannot be understood without analyzing its historical social and economic basis. Only then can a strategy for its eradication be devised.
The domestic labour of women, looking after the children, cleaning the house, cooking, washing and the many other forms of labour in which women are involved is a full day's work. But this system does not reward this human labour. Hence the cultural, social, moral and ethical roots of society are devised in such a manner that this system gets the labour of women in running society for free and is taken for granted. Hence this condition whereby women do not get back the product of their labour, develops a psychology of alienation. This further weakens and depresses women. Utilizing this situation the rulers of this system create laws, customs and rotten cultural traditions to further oppress women. The brutal military dictator Zia-ul Haq imposed the "Hadood Ordinance" and other anti-women black laws to further facilitate the exploitation of women by capitalism. Even a "democratic" government headed by a woman prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, could not abolish these draconian laws because they were inherent to the system and its state.
These pressures upon women further diminished their will, confidence, and determination. These reactionary periods developed a defeatist psychology amongst women. To abide by the ethics of this society, they are lured into behaving as commodities with excessive use of cosmetics and make-up, with a lust for jewellery and a psychology of decoration.
These traits are then further exploited by rich men into further subjugating women and portraying them as "weaknesses" of women. Using this social insecurity, alienation and the pressures on women, the capitalists exacerbate the exploitation of women workers in the factories and mills. It has been seen in general that women work with greater dedication and more meticulously than men. For example in Pakistan, women are 28% of the total workforce yet they generate 40% of production. At the same time it is a general law of capitalism that women workers are paid less than their male counterparts all around the world. For example according to the Office of National Statistics in Britain, the average yearly income of male workers in 1999 was £23,000 (pounds sterling) while at the same time the average wage of a female worker was £16,000. Hence there was a difference of 42% in their wage earnings. In Pakistan and the rest of the third world this situation is even worse.
At the same time the gender insensitivity is so severe that from the cradle to the grave women are forced to lead a discriminated life. There are more infant deaths among girls than among boys. Every year 135,000 women die during childbirth in Pakistan. Only 21% of women have access to medical facilities during childbirth.
The tragedy with the women's movements is that women from the upper classes, who mostly dominate them, have never had to suffer the same ordeals as the women of the oppressed classes. The adverse conditions in important sectors such as public hygiene, health and education, have a greater bearing on women of the working classes. Hence the struggle for the rights of women and their liberation have different meanings for women of different classes.
Without the overthrow of the bourgeois state and capitalist exploitation, the emancipation of working class women (who constitute the vast majority in society) is a utopia. Hence the ultimate liberation of women is linked to the class struggle of the workers of all religions, nationalities, races, sexes and colours. The ultimate destiny and victory of this struggle lies in the success of the Socialist Revolution.
As a toddler, Mina comes to Germany. By 21, she is lured back to Pakistan, her parents want her to marry a cousin. But she loves a German. The story of a dramatic escape - and a woman of her family remains connected after all.
It's this one moment, the Mina * will never forget: as a stranger speaks to them in the supermarket in the East Pakistan city of Sialkot, ask them to follow him quietly. Then they get into a car and drive to a guest house in Islamabad. From there, she calls her boyfriend Sebastian * in Germany, to tell him that she has managed to escape. And now that they will make their way to Germany.
Mina, 22, was from her parents to Pakistan lured in order to, in Sialkot, be married to a cousin, whom she did not even know.
"I had dreamed of a future in Germany - and then," she says. With their flight Mina has deprived the will of their parents. She has hurt her in her honor, is afraid of retaliation. But do not bad she wants her family, she still loves.
Why does she want then tell their story? She says she wanted to convey a message to women in similar situations: Defend yourselves, you can create it! But she also wants to remain anonymous, not even mentioned the name of the city know where she lives now.
It is the story of a young woman who was born in Pakistan and whose family moved to Germany in 1994. Mina was four years old. The family belongs to the Ahmadi community, which is persecuted in Pakistan.
It is also the story of a woman who is caught between two cultures. Mina has opted for a Western lifestyle. She grew up in Frankfurt, it has a slight German Hessian staining. The father is a wealthy businessman, his mother a housewife. With her three siblings Mina spends a carefree childhood.
But Minas parents integrate hardly believe it, can lead to a Pakistani living in Germany. When Mina is getting older, they observe suspicious dealings with their German peers, especially with boys. They forbid her to swimming lessons, they may ride in any class, they try to close off the girl. "Even before my secondary school graduation, she took me from school, to stop my contact with my German friends," says Mina. This is how the smart girls secondary schooling.
The foreigners authority links the residence to a further qualification of the daughter. The parents allow her training as an insurance specialist. That she does not wear a headscarf at work and has contact with Germans, they dislike. Their letters are opened secretly searched her wardrobe and her purse. It is searching for evidence of their "immoral lifestyles". If she wants to go out, must pretend Mina professional appointments.
In the spring of 2010, Mina pulls out for a few weeks. Her parents ask her to come back, promise improvement. But nothing in her behavior changes.
Engagement party against her will in Pakistan
In autumn 2010, the parents send their daughter to Pakistan. "My father said I should do financial transactions for him." Unknowingly Mina traveled to Sialkot. In the house of her uncle introduced her is a cousin. Her father calls, he asks if she liked the young man. She thinks nothing of it in the affirmative. In fact, she likes her cousin, he is an engineer, a nice guy. "But I did not marry yet," she says.
An engagement party is arranged. Mina calls her father, pleading with him to beg. But who says only that she should comply. "You're my good girl." Mina's coming, for fear that they otherwise may not return to Germany.
A week later she's back home. She is angry, the engagement ring bang on the kitchen table. Re-evacuate the parents fault.
Before her trip to Pakistan Mina has met over the Internet Sebastian, they fall in love. He is a lawyer, mid-40s, more than twice her age. Her parents, she conceals the relationship.
Explain shortly before Christmas 2010 Minas parents, the family would travel to Pakistan for two weeks together. Holiday, as they say. Sebastian does not recommend it strongly. "But what should I do? My parents had already booked flights."
Mina had a suspicion at this time? She thinks about it. Then she replies: "Those are my parents. ' She could not imagine that they do that to her something bad.
In Pakistan, the family lives with an uncle. Mina takes off the pass, the "reconfirmation of flights." The mother confiscated the phone, the contact with Sebastian breaks up with it.
And again it says: You're marrying the cousin! "This time, my father threatened that he would not let me defend myself only over his dead body I could come back to Germany -.. Or if I marry the cousin"
Back home in Germany Sebastian gets desperate
It's a strange life for Mina: countless relatives who is not familiar with new smells and sounds. If they go through Sialkot, she sees bazaars, traffic chaos, a mixture of poverty and industry. Several hours a day falls from power.
Under the pretext that she needed the phone because of the built-in light, it gets back to the device. Secretly, she uses a second SIM card. So she is in contact with the outside world - and Sebastian, the two communicate exclusively via SMS.
The weeks go by Sebastian at home desperately in Germany. "I did not know how I can help her," he says. Desperate, he sends e-mails to Minas father. They remain unanswered.
Sebastian calls the Ahmadi community in Germany and asks for help. They contacted the brethren in Sialkot, which in turn call to the uncle. Who denies any knowledge of Mina. "And then he threw me and my family from the house because he feared for his reputation," says Mina.
Minas father rages, he now takes his daughter away and driver's license, bank card and cell phone. He says she must marry the cousin definitely. Mina fights, threatens, she would rather kill himself. "Then we do it, you're not worth anything anyway," he hurls her counter.
The family comes in with an aunt, Mina remains a prisoner of her parents. A cousin Mina secretly worried a new phone.
Mister X, the friend in need
Sebastian contacted a German citizen with Pakistani roots, an influential man, he was recommended to him. The offers to take care of the matter. "I thought: I really trust him that life was my girlfriend But then I realized: I have no other choice," says Sebastian.
The helper wants to remain anonymous, Sebastian and Mina call him "Mister X". Mister X travels to Pakistan and asks if he can get to Mina, a new Pakistani passport. But Minas father also has applied for new papers for his daughter, and the responsible officer refuses to issue two passports for one person. Mister X pays a bribe, the official is suddenly helpful.
It is 13 March 2011, a Sunday. Mina is in Pakistan for 80 days. On this day she receives from Sebastian via SMS instructions to arrive at a supermarket. Mina is waiting for their chance, and at the appropriate moment she takes her purse and fled. Everything else they left behind.
In the supermarket she speaks to Mr. X, he brings them to Islamabad. From there, calls to Mina Sebastian, the first time in months. Both cry.
The parents notice their escape until hours later. The father leaves Mina at the Pakistani border police put on a list, their departure should be prevented. But Mr. X has his relationships can play: On that day when Mina will fly to Germany, her name should disappear from the list.
On 17 March is her new passport because, four days later, the German embassy from her a visa. Mister X is about Mina to a German security officials, who just happened to be traveling to Germany and the young woman must be on 22 March returned home accompanied.
Since then, Mina and Sebastian live together.
In an e-mail her parents wrote recently, she would forgive her. "We have to imagine this," said Mina, "they say they forgive me. " Her parents had never understood the Western culture. With their religion that had nothing to do, it's important to her: "I'm still a believer, I think a lot about Islam, just bothers me how some people are misusing religion to determine other people's lives."
"We are happy, and we are doing better since Minas parents have no contact with her," says Sebastian.
"We are fortunate indeed. But I miss it, parents have to," says Mina.
In spite of everything?
Even women in burkha are not spared.
Do people carry their marriage certificate aka nikahnama in their pockets when moving around? More Saudi than the Sauds!
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 According to the half-yearly report by War Against Rape (WAR) in the period Jan-June 2011, 68 percent of rape cases reported involved children. Of them 18 percent were aged 0-5 years, 27 percent between 6 and 11 years, and 23 percent from 12 to 17 years. Faiza’s case was the third of its kind reported in the last few days. Five-year-old Saima was found dead a day earlier. Her body had been tortured and she was gang-raped before being strangled to death.
Earlier this week, the police arrested a man for sodomizing a four-year-old boy in Lines Area. The year 2011 ended on a similar note with the murder of six-year-old Alishba. Not only was she raped, but one of her eyes was gorged out. Apart from these widely reported cases, Roshni Helpline, an NGO which deals with missing children, shares that this month in Mehmoodabad, a three-year-old Mehek was found in the same condition. In October 2011, the body of five-year-old Rehana Manzoor was found on Sharea Faisal. The girl belonged to Mubeena Town, like Faiza.
our correspondent - Thursday, March 01, 2012 - Karachi
Mangla Sharma of the Pakistan Hindu Council claimed on Wednesday that another Hindu girl had been kidnapped and forcibly converted a week ago in Mirpur Mathello.
This is not the first case of this nature as the community has been silently witnessing forcible conversion of their young girls for many months. Though the Pakistan Hindu Council does not have the latest figures, they believe that incidents of conversion are higher than reported in the media.
Rinkle, a 17-year-old girl as mentioned in the FIR, was kidnapped while going to school one day, claims her family. The girl was reportedly converted later and married off at a madrassa.
Three days ago, in her first statement after her kidnapping and conversion, Rinkle testified in front of the magistrate at a court in Deherki that she was forcibly converted and wanted to go back to her family. But Sharma says that rather than being sent to a Darul Aman, the girl was immediately sent to judicial custody until her statement was investigated.
What angered the family the most was that during her two days in judicial custody, she was not allowed to meet them, while the boy whom she was married off to was free to meet and speak to her.
Rochi Ram, a senior advocate of the Sindh High Court who has been witnessing the case for a week now, fears that Rinkle will eventually change her statement. He points out that such cases do not usually happen to people of, say, the Jatoi, Bugti or Marri clans. “It is always a poor man’s daughter,” and that is why he argues there is nothing anyone can do.
After observing the cases for a while now, Mangla Sharma says she waits for the same cycle to repeat itself. It is the same drill every time, she adds. A girl is kidnapped and converted at a madrassa and when the family creates an uproar the kidnappers produce a certificate that shows she has accepted Islam and ‘wants’ to be a Muslim.
Narrating the atmosphere at court, she says that as soon as the news of Rinkle’s conversion and marriage came out, a crowd comprising clerics and armed men gathered outside the court. As the men fired in the air, the boy made a victory sign for them while coming out of the court.
“If there is consent on both sides, why the need to protect her with arms?” she asks. Sharma points out that the look on the girl’s face shows that she is an unhappy bride. Minority MPA Pitamber Sewani, whose attempts to pass a resolution on forced conversions in the provincial assembly were held back on ‘legal grounds’, says that one needed to speak on the issue before it explodes in our faces.
Amarnath Motumel of the HRCP says the concerns of the community centre around the fact that the good deed of converting a girl also hides the purpose of trafficking her outside the country for prostitution. “I, for one, do not want to question a girl if she wants to marry someone outside her community, but when a forced conversion is portrayed as a love marriage, it is highly inappropriate,” he added. Twenty girls have been forcibly converted this month, according to the monthly report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
Re: Oppression of Women in Pakistan
Posted: 02 Mar 2012 18:43
by RajeshA
Originally posted by Aditya_V in 'Oppression of Minorities in Pakistan' Thread
Lahore: A Christian woman was brutally tortured and paraded in the streets of a village in Pakistan's Punjab province by a mob for her alleged "anti-Islam views", local residents and police officials said today.
Some 30 residents of Kot Meerath village of Sialkot district, 80 km from Lahore, dragged Seema Bibi out of her house on February 26 and paraded her in the streets after shaving her head.
She was targeted by the mob for her alleged "anti-Islam views", members of the Christian community said.
Following the assault, Seema Bibi and her family left the village to save their lives, local residents said.
"She and her family had been facing threats from a group of extremist villagers. She left the village as she had no other option," said Aslam Masih, a resident of Kot Meerath.
Regional police chief Muhammad Amin told reporters that 26 people had been arrested on charges of torturing Seema Bibi and a case had been registered against them.
Amin said police had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Seema Bibi and her family.
Amin said the arrested people had tortured and assaulted Seema Bibi for her beliefs.
Police had stepped up their vigil due to tensions between Muslims and Christians in the village, he said.
The women declared kari were earlier kidnapped by members of Jatoi community.
By Web Desk - Published: March 6, 2012
SUKKUR: A jirga by the Shar community in Shikarpur district declared two women kari and one of them was killed on Tuesday, Express News reported.
The women declared kari were earlier kidnapped by members of Jatoi community in relation to a three-year old conflict between the two communities but were later released after intervention by some influential people of the area.
According to Express News, police claim that the other woman has been recovered from the jirga.
675 ‘honour killing’ victims in Pakistan: HRCP
At least 675 Pakistani women and girls were murdered during the first nine months of 2011 for allegedly defaming their family’s honour, a leading human rights group had said.
Despite some progress on better protecting women’s rights, activists say the government needs to do far more to prosecute murderers in cases largely dismissed by police as private, family affairs.
“A total of 675 women and girls were killed in the name of honour across Pakistan from January to September [2011],” a senior official in the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan told AFP.
They included at least 71 victims under the age of 18.
The Commission reported 791 honour killings in 2010 and there was no discernible decrease this year, the official added.
Re: Oppression of Women in Pakistan
Posted: 06 Mar 2012 20:35
by BijuShet
From "Tribune" (posting in full). One more case of honor killing by TSPians. The shame always belongs to the girl and not the elders of the house whose values she must have imbibed. Honour Killing: Man kills sister over karo kari
18-year-old Hurmat was killed by her brother over the pretext of karo kari on Sunday night.
By PPI - Published: March 6, 2012
RATODERO: A young girl identified as 18-year-old Hurmat was killed by her brother over the pretext of karo kari on Sunday night. He also killed Ali Haider Jatoi because he suspected him to be involved with his sister. The SHO of the Hatri Ghulam Shah police station said that bodies were taken to Chandka Medical College Hospital, Larkana on Monday. Abid, Hurmat’s brother, was arrested soon after the incident.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 6th, 2012.
American Lady wrote:I agree. I was dating a Pakistani who I later found out was married. (his wife in Lahore, with 5 kids). Yea, he’s a player!! Cheater!
He doesn’t know any social etiquette or romantic etiquette. At first I thought it was culture shock—now I know he doesn’t know any better. The males rule there in Pakistan.
He’s messed up in the head. I feel bad for the women who don’t know any better in Pakistan…..men can be good and loving and romantic. Pakistani men are just users. Plain and simple. Users and abusers.
American Lady wrote:I add that he always wanted money off of me? He needed that money to send home to keep his family off his back so he can continue to play around in the United States…..
He was a liar, thief, taker. Warning in Lahore–if you have a middle aged husband and 5 kids your husband is creeping……not working hard at all.
Four women condemned to death by a tribal jirga or council for dancing and singing with men at a wedding in northern Pakistan have been killed, TV news channels reported on Sunday.
There was confusion about the number of women reportedly killed. Geo News channel reported that four women were killed while The Express Tribune reported on its website that five women were killed. The fifth woman was the sister of one the women , the report said.
I hope we can flag this news for reference. There is something that has fundamentally altered with pakis since they have moved from their Indic genes which makes me totally convinced that we can never assimilate them. Classic case of how innocent women were killed when every one knew that the video was doctored. Still there is always some Abdul who is ready to kill on any pretex to get their 72 in this life and after
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Re: Oppression of Women in Pakistan
Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:30
by Agnimitra
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Bilatakalluf with Tahir Gora Ep34 - Abdul Razzak Khushk & Rajesh Rathi talk about Forcible "Marriages" of Hindu Girls in Sindh
http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... an/258648/
Abandoned, Aborted, or Left for Dead: These Are the Vanishing Girls of Pakistan
By Habiba Nosheen & Hilke Schellmann
Jun 19 2012, 7:46 AM ET 14
LAHORE, Pakistan -- Dr. Saida Zafar, an 86-year-old gynecologist at the Race View Clinic, hovers over a female patient as she performs an ultrasound on her pregnant belly.
Within minutes, the patient asks a question that haunts most pregnant women in Pakistan, "Is it a boy, doctor?"
It's not a boy. The woman is expecting a girl.
Zafar says that when she finds herself in this position, she has to balance the patient's right to hear the truth against her own desire to save the female fetus from the risk of sex-selective abortion, as many families here prefer sons. So, often, she lies.
"I tell everybody, 'You are having a boy,"' Dr. Zafar tells us in English, so the patient won't understand.
Other doctors at the clinic face this same challenge every day, and many share similar frustrations.
"Only for the first child [do] I tell them if it's a girl or a boy. But after that, if it's a boy, it's alright, but if it's a girl, I don't say anything," says Dr. Ain-ul-Ghazala, 58, another gynecologist at the clinic.
Zafar says she withholds the sex of female babies from expecting mothers, as the news will almost always lead to cries of sorrow. And those cries can lead to action, as evident in Pakistan's sex ratio at birth......"
Gautam
Re: Oppression of Women in Pakistan
Posted: 08 Aug 2012 21:28
by RajeshA
Originally posted by Brad Goodman in 'TIRP' Thread
Two middle aged women were allegedly paraded naked in a village in Pakistan's Punjab province following a dispute over a proposed marriage, police officials said on Wednesday.
The women - Sakina and Samina – on Wednesday filed a complaint at Khan Ghar police station in Muzaffargarh district, 400 km from Lahore. They said a person named Irfan Ahmad and his accomplices had assaulted them and then paraded them naked in the streets on Tuesday.
Sakina said she and Samina had gone to Ahmad's house to ask him to marry his daughter Nabila to Sakina's son Shoaib.
Sakina alleged that Ahmad became infuriated during the discussions and started beating them. "His relatives joined him and they paraded us naked in front of the residents of the area," Sakina said.
TV news channels reported that some men had filmed the incident with their mobile phones.
Khan Ghar police station chief Mustafa Kamal said that a case had been registered against Ahmad and eight others.
"We have arrested Irfan Ahmad and raids are being conducted to nab the others," he said. The statements of eyewitnesses were being recorded, Kamal said.
The claims of the women would be verified from the witnesses, he said. Quoting a relative of Ahmad, Kamal said Shoaib and Nabila had an affair and this had angered Ahmad. He said Ahmad got infuriated when he learnt that
The Sindh High Court has asked the Sindh government to consider paying the full compensation amount to rape survivor Kainat Soomro on humanitarian grounds.
Maryam Bibi was cutting grass in the fields of a local landlord who forced her to submit to his sexual advances. When she refused, the landlord levelled allegations against the woman.
Supreme Court summoned IG Punjab, prosecutor for second time in rape case of 13-year-old. A resident of Ratta Amral had alleged that three men forcibly took his daughter to their house and raped her in March.
A domestic worker was abducted and reportedly raped by a lawyer in DHA and police pressurized the victim to take back the case. Activists demanded lawyer’s license to be revoked.
A 13-year-old Christian girl was drugged and raped by her employee and his friends on March 29. The accused tortured the family into withdrawing case. Police started siding with the accused and declared one accused innocent.
An illegal jirga held in Ratta Amral reached an out-of-court settlement of a rape case. Punjab prosecutor general files appeal against the acquittal of the accused men, which is forwarded to LHC by SC.
A balloon-seller’s daughter got abducted by a shopkeeper in Bahawalpur when she went to buy some eatables. He took her to a school building to rape her.
Interior Minister also took notice of five teenage girls being raped by border military police, sought report from Punjab chief secretary and IG Punjab.
Uzma Ayub was allegedly raped by 13 people, including three police officials in 2010. The Peshawar High Court had ordered that 17 people, including the victim, be tested after DNA tests failed to identify the culprits.
Mian Ali Imran’s daughter was promised a job by a woman and was raped on April 19 when she went for the job interview. Imran said police took bribe from the suspect to declare the rape as “consensual sex” in the report.
Preliminary investigations revealed victims had hidden their true identity. Husband of one victim said police investigators had beaten two girls to make them change their statements.
A class two student in Faisalabad was abducted by three teenage boys at gunpoint. They took her to a house and raped her, filming and taking pictures of her.
A 6-year-old girl found strangled to death in Jaranwala after she had gone missing a day earlier. Police registered case of murder and said rape section will be added to FIR if autopsy confirms rape.
Two sisters taken to Naseem’s house who allegedly runs a brothel. Then they were taken to an unknown place on a rickshaw, where they were sedated and raped for two days. They were thrown semi-conscious, semi-naked on the roads later.
A 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted for over eight months by her colleague. The colleague had promised to marry her but turned her away after learning about her pregnancy.
Six-year-old girl in Karachi was abducted by three men, who kept her in a windowless room, repeatedly assaulted her. They later strangled her, gouged out her eyes and dumped her body.
War Against Rape researchers lament that country’s law books were devoid of specific punishments for object rape, incest, digital rape necrophilia, marital rape and other forms of sexual violence.
Shazia Bibi* from Muradpur Basti accused Hussain, and his two accomplices of kidnapping her and trying to rape her. She said the three men threw acid on her and fled.
Abdul Rasheed from Javed Colony said a relative Shahid and Nadeem had kidnapped his 15-year-old daughter on February 18. Girl said she was raped for 15 days.
A woman’s relatives in Faisalabad accuse a man of trying to break into her house. Police registered rape case against the man on complaint filed by the woman’s uncle.
Eight-year-old girl was raped by teacher at her seminary during the lunch break on March 12. The suspect had also raped four other students whose parents had earlier been reluctant to take the matter to the police.
R was raped by her father-in-law when she was alone at home. She informed her husband, whom she had married nine months ago, of the incident but he “tortured” her and kept her in detention.
Residents of Chak 662 beat a man after a woman accused him of entering her sister-in-law’s room and raping her while the men of the family were away at work.
On May 18 Fariha* and Fauzia* of Phularwan village, Lahore were pulled into crop fields by three men, identified as Naseem Akram, Jameel Akbar and Kaka. Fariha was gang raped by the men.
A 13-year-old girl in Islamabad claimed she was returning from school while a young boy with a knife threatened to kill her. He took her to a secluded place near a stream and raped her.
A woman was lured to the City Railway Station by Jahangir, Khandad, Sabir and Chanda Bibi on the pretext that they had arranged a job for her. They took her to Victoria Restaurant where they kept her hostage for a year and a half in a room, repeatedly raped by various men who would pay her captors.
Shumaila Parveen, 16, was stabbed to death at her home on May 18, allegedly by a landlord and his servant. They had allegedly tried to rape her before killing her.
A man had married a widow from his neighbourhood and moved to Jhang. The woman’s family registered an abducting case against the man and accused him of “wooing” their daughter into marrying him. They later abducted he and his wife and beat him in public.
Muhammad Rizwan, a hospital clerk, abducted a 29-year-old patient with help from two accomplices and took her to a quarter on Ghazi Road in Millat Park, where she was raped.
The two ninth graders were allegedly abducted from a street while returning from school by six men. They were taken to a nearby real estate office and were raped for hours.
Kausar Bibi* said her mother-in-law and brothers-in-law had been pressing her to take up sex work since her husband left for work in Karachi. Her brothers-in-law tried to sexually assault her ‘for being disobedient’.
Saleema Bibi* had accused an Ahmedpur resident and his four accomplices of kidnapping her daughter Saima* and detaining and sexually assaulting her for 13 days.
A 10-year-old girl, Kaniza Rukia, was found critically injured, and later succumbed to her wounds. Her doctor said her body bore numerous torture marks, and she might have been sexually assaulted.
A relative, along with some other people, came to Faryal’s* house when she was alone. They gave her a pack of juice and she fainted after drinking it. She was tied up and raped for two weeks.
Hameeda Bibi,* resident of Mohallah Ghafoorabad, was raped at Peer Bawa Hayat Shah’s abode. Shah had locked the room and first chanted some stuff to ‘cure the headache’ but then harassed her with a gun and he and one Mudassir had raped her.
Rape victim Uzma Ayub’s brother Alamzeb Khattak was shot dead on December 9, 2011, while escorting Uzma for a hearing for her rape case at Karak courts.
Two rape victims said an arrested man and two women were not to be blamed for the rape and a misunderstanding had resulted in registration of the case.
Allah Rakhi said her daughter had gone to Arshad’s shop to buy some goods on October 12, 2011, but did not return. She went looking for her daughter and some children told her that she was being held in the shop where she was allegedly raped.
Shazia Bibi* said she had escaped the house where Arshad and his two accomplices detained her. She said she had been allegedly sexually assaulted and tortured for three days.
A 14-year-old girl was raped at gunpoint by a police constable and another man, while her grandparents were tied and gagged in another room of their house.
Alleged rape victim Uzma Ayub had accused 13 people, including three police officials and an army official, of raping her after she was abducted and kept in custody for 13 months.
The court was hearing three cases jointly – one a petition for the recovery of a maid abducted from Lahore, the second concerning a murder during an incident of illegal dispossession, and the third concerning the arrest of the alleged ring leader in a gang rape case who is said to be a friend of Law Minister Rana Sanaullah.
A 22-year-old physically disabled woman said she was kidnapped from her house by four men who took her to a vacant house. She was raped by Sarfaraz, while his accomplices Latif Gujjar, Aslam Rath and Riaz Arain watched the house.
The CJ was astonished that former Superintendent of Police (SP) Faisalabad Ahmed Raza Tahir, against whom substantial evidence was provided, was posted as Regional Police Officer (RPO) Lahore.
A report by NGO Sahil said a total of 4,846 attackers abused 2,303 children in 2011. The total number of sexual abuse cases in 2011, stood at a staggering 2,303.
A 12-year-old boy sexually assaulted and killed. In another incident, mutilated body of a woman found in a field who was apparently sexually assaulted and murdered.
A 25-year-old woman was alone at home, when two men from the same locality broke into the house and raped her. When news of her rape spread and people taunted her, she consumed poison.
A five-year-old child was hospitalised with a severe head injury and several cuts he suffered in an assault allegedly by two men who were attempting to rape him.
An 11-year-old girl’s shrieking and crying for help saved her from attempted rape at the hands of a family acquaintance, a 22-year-old single man living in the same street as her.
A woman moved a bail-cancellation plea for five people who she says kidnapped her, raped her repeatedly for two years, broke her knees and rendered her unable to walk.
Uzma Ayub has been hounded by journalists from her house to her hospital bed, narrating her experiences of abduction and gang-rape to reporters and millions of viewers across the globe – again and again.
The four persons were arrested when Zafran, Uzma’s other brother, registered a complaint with the police, accusing the officials and Ibrahim Shah, the ASI’s brother, of killing Alamzeb on court premises.
Victims, age no bound, are left physically, psychologically and socially scarred. They suffer from deep depression, anxiety, and often lose their trust and confidence in everyone.
Muhammad Khurram visited the house when the homeowner was away and added sedatives to their milk. He then raped the 16-year-old daughter after the family lost consciousness.
Nazia*, 25, was asleep with her two minor children when two persons entered her room after scaling the boundary wall. They held her at gunpoint, looted Rs1,80,000 cash and raped her.
Rukhsana Bibi alleged that policemen entered her house and tried to rape her daughter, Samina*. When the girl resisted, the two sub-inspectors slit her throat.
Muslim Brotherhood slams proposed UN CSW document which contradicts principles of Islam and destroys family life and entire society.
The 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), taking place from March 4 to 15 at UN headquarters, seeks to ratify a declaration euphemistically entitled ‘End Violence against Women’.
That title, however, is misleading and deceptive. The document includes articles that contradict established principles of Islam, undermine Islamic ethics and destroy the family, the basic building block of society, according to the Egyptian Constitution.
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A closer look at these articles reveals what decadence awaits our world, if we sign this document:
1. Granting girls full sexual freedom, as well as the freedom to decide their own gender and the gender of their partners (ie, choose to have normal or homo- sexual relationships), while raising the age of marriage.
2. Providing contraceptives for adolescent girls and training them to use those, while legalizing abortion to get rid of unwanted pregnancies, in the name of sexual and reproductive rights.
3. Granting equal rights to adulterous wives and illegitimate sons resulting from adulterous relationships.
4. Granting equal rights to homosexuals, and providing protection and respect for prostitutes.
5. Giving wives full rights to file legal complaints against husbands accusing them of rape or sexual harassment, obliging competent authorities to deal husbands punishments similar to those prescribed for raping or sexually harassing a stranger.
6. Equal inheritance (between men and women).
7. Replacing guardianship with partnership, and full sharing of roles within the family between men and women such as: spending, child care and home chores.
8. Full equality in marriage legislation such as: allowing Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men, and abolition of polygamy, dowry, men taking charge of family spending, etc.
9. Removing the authority of divorce from husbands and placing it in the hands of judges, and sharing all property after divorce.
10. Cancelling the need for a husband’s consent in matters like: travel, work, or use of contraception.
Re: Oppression of Women in Pakistan
Posted: 02 Apr 2016 17:33
by arun
X Posted from the STFUP thread.
I guess when the Islamic Republic of Pakistan could settle issue of non-delivery of F16’s by the US via shipment of Soybeans, it would be par for the course to compensate gang rape by supply of Wheat :
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