The Violence Factor

Pakistan`s President Pervez Musharraf has stepped into a controversial rape case, saying he believes an accused army captain is not guilty. ..... BBC today

......... in other news, the government of pakistan has fined meera for acting in a ``vulgar`` indian film .........

......... so our ghairat (whatever that means) has been defended ! ......... as for violence, and all that, we are a proud martial race and violence is part of our culture - so stop whining !

The final nail on the cofin of pakistan as a civil society has been driven by Mushy today, he has declared that the person who raped the doctor should be hung, and the army man is not the culprit. Where is the rule of law in the country created by TNT. Obviously there can be none, now there are two nations in pakistan, one that of military and the other that of non military.

The unfortunate part is tha there are still educated pakistanis who say that pakistan is a moderate society. It is the president who decides who is guilty, who should be hung. By the way where is law about four male witnesses, where is hoodood.

For the president, as it is for educated, the effort is focussed on projecting an image, as hamidm would say, putting lipstick on the donkey, oor like pouring perfume ina cess pool.

words of wisdom for jay aficionados;)

Date Posted: Jan-28-100 -2:49:52 PST Reply #: 167 jay

Temporal,

Take it easy, I didn’t /piss/ in your coke.

There is a game called intellectual origami, I take the clean pure paper of Pakistan, fold it around to make it into a jihadic monster and my good Pakistani friends are busy for a few days, removing the folds, ironing it out.

Take it easy I didn’t….

Regards

At last the paise has dropped. The doctor, being well to do should have hired the military for protection, as it is one by Sui gas and KESC to protect their installation. Military has enetered the security bussiness having exhausted the rest, from corn flakes to cement to farming.

There is always a method in the madness, whi said other wise in this case.

Violence/Aggression is an important area for research;Present article just talks about violence against women.Its interesting to note that that organized violence is always backed by either state(military,police )or religeon(crusades,jihad,riots in the name of religeon) or political parties(incidents like Ayodhya,Gujrat).On the other hand,individual violence is more determined by biological(excess of testosterone,xxxsyndrome,organic brain damage,epilepsy),psychological/psychiatric(mental illness,psychopathy,alcoholv or substance abuse),social(deprivation,social inequalities,injustice,descrimination,territorial trspassing)factors.Irresponsible media plays a big role in propagation of violence by glorifying it on TV and in films.Studies have proved that exposure of children to violence in reality or on media,makes them vulnerable to become vilent.Similarly it has been proved that those children who were exposed to violence in the form of physical or sexual abuse turn out to be more violent on growing up as compared to others.

Excellent piece.

A good article.
It really is dispicable to see whatis happening in Pakistan. The military dictates everything. What i do not understand is how 1 man who is managing both the milatary and the countries admin and even the sports department has time to find out whats happening in criminal investigations.

Are we running out of people or what!

theres no doubt that what happend to dr. shazia is a big reminder to all pakistanis, indeed all humans, of the flaw in every man made legal sytem. essentially, man made justice is completely irrelevant for the modern history. we will continue to face such issues until a more superior form of justice is implemented in form. pakistan and its legal system needs to be revamped from the root. political meddling will no longer work in the 21st century. i am hopeful that musharraf and his government will give this case a long hard look and make every effort to bring pakistans legal system on par with those of the West, where ironically, legal systems mimic Islamic concepts of justice more than any Muslim country.

The issue is not about bringing Pakistan`s legal system ``at par`` with that of the West. The issue is much larger, encompassing our entire 57 year history and the abuse meted out to the process of political evolution by the army and its ``control freak`` nature. The legal system can never be stable unless the political system has struck balances and defined demarcations amongst the executive, legislature and judiciary.

And mind you, Musharraf couldn`t care less about a rape victim, much less about one from Baluchistan, given the political circumstances. In a situation such as this, it is up to people like us to take to the streets and protest, instead of being vaguely ``hopeful`` about the motives and actions of our great dictator...he is more worried about being molested himself by a number of different disgruntled fronts.