Crimes against Women in Pakistan

[Gin ka Pakistan]

Dowry an evil in Pakistan and India

Just like Saudi Arab, in Afghanistan too tribal tradition is to pay money to girls parents to marry their daughters

 

[Gin ka Pakistan]

Ontario police spearheading a broad investigation of a military commander facing murder and sexual assault charges said Tuesday they're fielding calls from other forces and families of victims of crime about so-called cold cases.

Police services, crime victims' families inquire after CFB Trenton cmdr charged - Yahoo! Canada News

 

[Aeon]

As for God, I read some sayings somewhere:

"No one is 'special' or 'chosen' in any way. In the eyes of God, we are all the same. Whether rich or poor, smart or dumb, pretty or ugly, young or old, male or female."

"It is our deeds and nature that set us apart from others. God does not care for the surface, for it is the heart he sees."



Nevertheless, I don't think it'd be desirable to have a 50% divorce rate in the country due to excessive 'modernization'. Not saying that is what it will lead to, but need to keep the opposite extreme in mind as well. Need to guard against both extremes and find a proper point in the middle.

 

[SMC]

Its fairly simple.. Women have undergone diffeent levels of opression/discrimination virtually every where in the world for most of the last 20 centuries of recorded history. Its only recently that we as a race have woken up to this ridiculous situation and have started taking some corrective actions. This is easier said than done, since we are moving away from a mindset which has been prevelant for centuries and most of the old customs/traditions/laws actually contribute to this discrimination. So its obvious that the steps that get taken to correct this at times tend to over compensate since once you realize the problem, you always try to err on the side of caution. Thats why in most western countries, where the progress on this front is light years ahead of what we see in the subcontinent, laws are extremely protective of the women's rights

Hence the comment from S2 about an extremely high probability of landing in jail on hitting a woman (and rightfully so)

It's debateable whether women back in the day were really oppressed. For a better understanding, ask the old women living in western countries about how they feel about modern times compared to old days and whether they felt oppressed. There was something called chivalry which gave women special privliges over men. Voting cannot be used as an indictator: men could vote only some decades before women could. For most part of history before that, there was no voting. Compare happiness of women in the old days to modern age in western countries. You'll find these sorts of statistics: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20dowd.html?_r=1. One could make an argument about men being oppressed because of being forced to go to war, because of women never being held accountable, because of men being shown as social outcast if they didn't marry, because of being saved first in life-death situation in place of women, etc. The people in powerful positions were men - yes, but they did not work for in men's interests. That is what so cruical about this whole oppression debate because it is made to look like they were. (If you want more on this, read this column: http://www.angryharry.com/eswerewomenoppressedinthewest.htm) Regardless, I will not get into that discussion as it will be way off-topic.

But the point is simple. You do not correct discrimination (if that's what you want to call it) - and btw domestic violence back in the day was much lower than today in western countries, yes there were no statistics in the day but if you look at their tradition back in the day it's pretty much guaranteed - by arresting someone for defending themselves. That's retarded, and discrimintory. In other words, you do not correct discrimination by introducing new discrimination. The laws in western countries are not something we should try to implement because they will lead to disasters - broken families and the death of marriage and general unhappiness. You go to jail and get charged for the crime JUST BASED ON THE ALLEGATION. Often, you get beaten, just based on the allegation. Now number of false accusations are not shown heavily in the media because of political correctness but those who know what's going on with the police, number of false accusations are really high. Half of rape accusations are false (http://www.mediaradar.org/research_on_false_rape_allegations.php). Domestic violence probably a similar number (no research on it). This is why at no cost should we implement the western system.

 

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Post news about crimes against women in our society in this thread. We can thus draw conclusions and debate effectively over gender issues.

Woman persecuted for her career aspirations​

By Qaisar Sherazi

June 08, 2010

RAWALPINDI: A female professor from Balochistan appealed to human rights organisations and the Supreme Court Chief Justice to protect her from becoming a victim of honour killings. Safina Naz incurred the wrath and disdain of traditional elements of Balochistan for being a working woman and student of PhD.

Naz lives in constant fear of being killed by her former husband and family members, and claims that she has already been the victim of two murder attempts. She also claims that her cousin, Sumaila, had already been killed in the name of ‘honour’.

Naz said that when she was a professor at the Army Public School in Zhob, her husband used to detain her in a dark room without food.

He was a tailor and allegedly tortured her as punishment for wanting to pursue higher education and working, both of which he considered ‘dishonourable’.

Naz applied for a ‘khula’ (dissolution of marriage) from him and moved to Rawalpindi.

She said that her husband attempted to kill her when she was leaving. On February 3, 2009, she filed a case against her husband in Rawalpindi, where a second attempt on her life was foiled by the District and Session Judge. The judge ordered the police to take her to a safer place.

Her father Altaf Hussain, cousin Muhammad Irshad and her husband appeared in court, tendered an apology and signed an affidavit stating that Naz would be allowed to work and study.

It was also said that she would be given physical protection.

Naz went back to her home town where her husband once again subjected her and their two children to violence.

She escaped in October 2009 and sued her husband, asking for dissolution of their marriage.

The judge decreed the case in her favour on November 25, 2009 and sent her to Dar ulAaman.

Later, her ex-husband and cousin sent a woman to Dar ulAaman who attempted to kill Naz, but succeeded only in fracturing her arm.

After this incident, she left Dar ulAaman and now keeps moving around the city, appearing only in court. She said that she poses as a mentally challenged, homeless person so that her family cannot find her.

She appealed to Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and human rights organisations to intervene and provide
her protection from being killed.

Safina Naz is the only woman from Balochistan attempting to do a doctorate in Keratography.

She was selected by the government to do her PhD abroad under the National Training System after she secured 92 per cent marks.

She was married to Zahoor Ahmed in 1999 and said that the only reason he let her continue working was so that he could live off her salary, which was Rs38,000 per month.

Published in the Express Tribune, June 8th, 2010.

 

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Note the thread starter - the main contributors, the thread start date.

PDF proudly taking on women's causes for many years!

 

[Spring Onion]

Note the thread starter - the main contributors, the thread start date.

PDF proudly taking on women's causes for many years!

We know Asim. PDF bowed down to low lives from India recently when it had forced you to ban all such topic on pretext of "local news". They are willing to support ban on rape topics even if it leads to banning of such about Pakistan, just because this saves them from bringing up Indian situation here.

Hopefully this section be made sticky and any low life who attempt to post just for sake of facepalm should be BANNED immediatly.

Please also conditioned this sticky thread with only those members can post who have 10,000 Posts. also do away with any nationality mentioning in title. It should be Crimes against WOmen

 

[Spring Onion]

Crimes against women: ‘There are more honour killings than we know’

LAHORE:
“As many as 500 women and girls are killed for ‘honour’ in Pakistan each year, making Pakistan one of the most dangerous countries for women,” said Dr Muazzam Nasrullah, a public health specialist teaching at Emory and West Virginia University, USA, on Friday.

He was delivering a lecture on Honour Killings: A Public Health Perspective at the University of Health Sciences, organised by the UHS Department of Family Medicine.

Dr Nasrullah stressed the need to provide a platform to oppressed women. “This will help create an informed and supportive environment for advocacy for policies to eliminate violence against women,” he said.

He said, ‘honour’ killings most often involved women being murdered by their family members to avenge the ‘shame’ brought on through infidelity or culturally unacceptable behaviour. “This is a unique form of violence,” said Dr Nasrullah.

“Domestic violence is usually carried out by husbands or romantic partners…in this case the perpetrators are usually brothers or fathers.”

Dr Nasrullah said his study had tried to quantify the problem since data on the matter was hard to come by. He said he had used newspaper reports compiled by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan for his study. He said 1,957 incidents of honour killings had been recorded over the past four years.

Most of them had occurred in response to alleged extramarital relations.

Dr Nasrullah said he was sure that the number of incidents reported was lower than the actual number of incidents, as not every incident makes it to the media. “The problem is much worse than what this study makes it out to be,” he said.

The average rate of honour killings in women between 15-64 years was found to be 15 per million women per year.

He said murders for ‘honour’ occurred all over the country under various names kala-kali (Punjab), karo-kari (Sindh), tor-tora (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Siyakari (Balochistan).

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Director IA Rehman said although honour killings were illegal, there were loopholes in the law that often prevented full punishment for the crime.

He said it was very important to have reliable data about honour killings.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 15th, 2014.