Articles with tag: rape

Rape Survivor Families Struggle Against Odds

Beena Sarwar Oct 5, 2008 interacts: 60

Even the high-profile case of Mukhtaran Mai, gang-raped by locally influential people in 2002, is still pending before the Supreme Court.

Fight Hudood, Protect Women

Beena Sarwar Mar 6, 2007 interacts: 414

Pervez Musharraf’s amendment of Pakistan’s Sharia laws represents only a partial victory against legislation that many have been fighting against for over two decades.

First, Honor Thyself

Jawahara Saidullah May 1, 2006 interacts: 63

Her virginity and her body is not hers alone. They are symbols of her family’s honor, whether it is her birth family or that of her husband

Celebrity Courts and Kangaroo Justice

Farzana Versey Apr 18, 2006 interacts: 116

I protest against this abuse of a cause by people like Aamir Khan, for it is gimmicky and counter-productive. News channels are behaving like nautch girls and social butterflies as the nawabs of vigilance. Page 3 justice is the latest fad

Boot-in-Mouth

Shakir Husain Sep 21, 2005 interacts: 13

What possesses the son of a mother, the husband of a wife, and the father of a daughter to say something as crass as the leader of our country just did in Washington?

Because He Couldn’t Get It Up!

Azra Rashid Sep 17, 2005 interacts: 68

It is not easy being a woman in Pakistan.

Rape of another Kind

naeem sadiq Sep 17, 2005 interacts: 45

He must publicly and unconditionally apologise to every citizen of Pakistan.

Who Tarnished the Image of Pakistan?

Xari Jalil Jul 13, 2005 interacts: 53

The Government placed her name on the Exit Control List thus canceling her scheduled visit to the U.S. with the President announcing shamelessly that it was done so that she wouldn’t blemish the image of the country. Her name was very conveniently r

Mukhtaran Mai vs. the Rest of Pakistan

naeem sadiq Jun 14, 2005 interacts: 281

There are examples in history where armies were dispatched to protect the honour of a single woman. There is however no example of a single woman dispatching herself to fight against an army of institutions that collectively represent an entire countr

From Photo Sessions to Reality

naeem sadiq Apr 12, 2005 interacts: 17

For once the eloquent ex- City Banker Prime Minister was at a complete loss for words. He stood stunned and speechless ... after all Mukhtaran Mai was the first rape victim that the Prime Minister had ever seen or met.

A Journey Through Our Conscience

sajal javid Apr 7, 2005 interacts: 305

Up to eighty percent of the thousands of women incarcerated presently in Pakistani jails are facing charges related to the Hudood Ordinance, and most cases involve women being charged with adultery after they have allegedly been raped.

A Rapist-Friendly System

Nauman Nisar Mar 7, 2005 interacts: 38

The verdict is out. Five of the six men received a non-guilty verdict and for one the death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.

The Ultimate Violation

Beena Sarwar Feb 20, 2005 interacts: 72

What happened to Shazia should not happen to anybody. And those who want to suppress the case, hide the reality, protect the sinners who committed this act, have they ever thought that this could happen in their own house too, to their own daughter or wif

Stuck in Stone Age

Nauman Nisar Feb 16, 2005 interacts: 6

Akbar Bugti was quite successful in steering the misdirected anger of his people for the sake of his personal gains.

Cover-Up of a Gang Rape by the Military?

Aziz Narejo Feb 13, 2005 interacts: 179

If you had to face the rape victim, what would you tell her?

flying kites, playing flutes

Temporal Feb 6, 2005 interacts: 17

wine and tharra flowing unabashed
right beneath the minaret’s shadow
who deludes whom is for whom to wonder

A Call for Justice

Abrar Akbar Feb 1, 2005 interacts: 8

More than four weeks have passed since the print media first reported about a gang-rape of a lady doctor, allegedly by military personnel, at Sui. Not a single suspect has been apprehended yet.

Gang-rape in Sui

Malik Imran Jan 20, 2005 interacts: 47

Outrage is hardly the word, this is just dreadful. So far there are no reports accusing Americans of raping, let alone gang-raping, Iraqi women.

Bhaiya, Malhar Sunao

Hamid Mahmood Aug 6, 2004 interacts: 179

He slowly opened his eyes, and looked down at her. She seemed so peaceful and satisfied as if all her wishes had come true. Her head was tilted and rested on his arm.

Blank Fate

JB Nov 7, 2003 interacts: 18

Painfully she lifted her gaze, staring at the emptiness on her mother’s face. She knew then, she had lost everyone whom she was once proud to call hers