abeer
12-03-2006, 04:27 AM
Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic political movement founded in August 26, 1941, today it’s one of the largest religious parties of Pakistan. And what they’re doing? Not letting women of Pakistan grow. They’re always putting obstacles in the way of Pakistani women’s liberty. Sometimes they say “it’s important to do hijab in schools”, and sometimes they’re just saying the ridiculous things like, “domestic violence is a private issue and if a women is a good wife, why will anyone want to beat or burn her?"
So, my question to Jamaate-Islami; the so-called comrades of pakistan’s females, that 82 percent of women in rural Punjab, feared violence resulting from husband's anger over slight matters. In the most urbanized areas of Pakistan, fifty-two percent women confessed being beaten by husbands. Husbands or in-laws interfere with gas stoves so the cooker explode in the face of a woman as she turns it on to cook. In these cases murders are made to look like suicides and are concealed by husbands. While killings are not usually sanctioned in the laws of the land, judges often deliver littlest sentences. Mostly the injury is stamp out to a technical fault in the cooker. There are new burning cases everyday. The majority of women don't make it.
So what I’m trying to ask Jamaat-e-Islami is this, are all women defiant, dire and indecorous to men? And suppose if they are so husband can give divorce; get separated; send woman to her home, but directly, he’s burning her; murdering her and sending her from this world. Your saying wives are not good so why can’t wives complaint that their husbands are not benevolent, kind or attentive. All because the Pakistani wives are compromising and polite. The harmless wife, takes care of his home, cooks, mops and tries to keep him contented but argumentative husband keeps complaining and doesn’t reward her with love or care. He just gives her death.
In November 1997, Mussarrat Bibi, a pregnant woman and mother of three, was beaten to death by villagers in the Sheikupura district of Pakistan just because of some false rumours of her immoral behaviour. Actually the real reason for her death was that she had refused to work for local landlords without payment, so they spread the rumors.
What kind of society is it where the husbands, brothers, even fathers of a family show such inhumanity towards their own daughters,sisters,wifes and even mothers, in the name of social, religious, or family values.
Women are deserted, her existance means nothing to the men of Pakistan and she has nowhere to hid.
It’s up to the readers to deciede that Jaamat-e-Islami is foe or friend of women of pakistan. But if you ask me, all jamaatis (Members are often referred to as Jamaatis) whether its Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Liaqat Baloch or Khurshid Ahmad they’re definetely the biggest enemy of pakistani women’s liberty and success.
By Abeer Khan
Chairperson Florida Chapter-Canadian Poetry Association Member Pen American Center Member National Association Of Women Writers - USA
www.liberty4pakistaniwomen.com
So, my question to Jamaate-Islami; the so-called comrades of pakistan’s females, that 82 percent of women in rural Punjab, feared violence resulting from husband's anger over slight matters. In the most urbanized areas of Pakistan, fifty-two percent women confessed being beaten by husbands. Husbands or in-laws interfere with gas stoves so the cooker explode in the face of a woman as she turns it on to cook. In these cases murders are made to look like suicides and are concealed by husbands. While killings are not usually sanctioned in the laws of the land, judges often deliver littlest sentences. Mostly the injury is stamp out to a technical fault in the cooker. There are new burning cases everyday. The majority of women don't make it.
So what I’m trying to ask Jamaat-e-Islami is this, are all women defiant, dire and indecorous to men? And suppose if they are so husband can give divorce; get separated; send woman to her home, but directly, he’s burning her; murdering her and sending her from this world. Your saying wives are not good so why can’t wives complaint that their husbands are not benevolent, kind or attentive. All because the Pakistani wives are compromising and polite. The harmless wife, takes care of his home, cooks, mops and tries to keep him contented but argumentative husband keeps complaining and doesn’t reward her with love or care. He just gives her death.
In November 1997, Mussarrat Bibi, a pregnant woman and mother of three, was beaten to death by villagers in the Sheikupura district of Pakistan just because of some false rumours of her immoral behaviour. Actually the real reason for her death was that she had refused to work for local landlords without payment, so they spread the rumors.
What kind of society is it where the husbands, brothers, even fathers of a family show such inhumanity towards their own daughters,sisters,wifes and even mothers, in the name of social, religious, or family values.
Women are deserted, her existance means nothing to the men of Pakistan and she has nowhere to hid.
It’s up to the readers to deciede that Jaamat-e-Islami is foe or friend of women of pakistan. But if you ask me, all jamaatis (Members are often referred to as Jamaatis) whether its Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Liaqat Baloch or Khurshid Ahmad they’re definetely the biggest enemy of pakistani women’s liberty and success.
By Abeer Khan
Chairperson Florida Chapter-Canadian Poetry Association Member Pen American Center Member National Association Of Women Writers - USA
www.liberty4pakistaniwomen.com