Three recent incidents prove that as far as women are concerned, we’re still living in the Stone Age. The first, about a woman being gang-raped, should not shock us anymore. This is the kind of incident that happens regularly, so much so that it would be shocking if it didn’t occur on any given day. Yet it proves that the poor women in rural areas are treated worse than animals. At least the females of other species are not raped by males! In the second incident, a pregnant mother of six was first shot and then thrown into a canal by her brother (NAWABSHAH, July 23: Nature saved a woman on ‘family way’ who was first shot at by her brother and then thrown into a water channel. A mother of six and in the second trimester of her pregnancy was under treatment in the Peoples Medical Hospital.
Ms Ameeran, 45, wife of Izzat Ali Lashari was shot by her brother Ghulam Rasool Lashari on the pretext of karo-kari in village Haji Lashari in the Daur area on Thursday.
She was thrown by the accused in Setharki minor (canal). Irrigation staff saw her and informed the police who took no time in recovering and taking her to Peoples Medical College Hospital.
The woman was admitted to neurosurgery unit where she is stated to be improving.
An official at Daur police station said that the woman had stated that his brother Ghulam Rasool shot and threw her into the canal after accusing her of having illicit relations with one Aziz Mumtaz Lashari.
He said that the police have registered an FIR.—BoC ) because he suspected her of having an illicit affair with a relative.
I suppose it’s no use telling these primitive men that there is a legal way to deal with adulterous women. In any case, who gave the man the right to kill his sister for any reason at all?
The third incident is heart-breaking. A woman of 50, the mother of eight children, was gang-raped by five men against whom she complained to the police. Instead of giving comfort and sympathy to the woman, her son-in-law (whom she had brought up as her own son) killed her because “he could not stand peoples’ taunts”.
So this is the kind of treatment our women get in this Islamic Republic! And some deeply religious Pakistanis I know have the gall to say that women have more rights than men in our country.
