SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Whether she is the prime minister, a lawyer or a doctor, a woman is never treated as an equal among men, which is proof of the lack of awareness in Pakistan’s society. Though many influential landlords and tribal chiefs were educated in reputed foreign institutions such as Oxford, they took pride in organising jirgas for karo-kari and bartered women for murders. She was of the belief that education had nothing to do with such practices and customs; rather, it was the mindset that needed to be changed. Recently a jirga held in Ghotki district ordered a man to barter his two minor daughters and pay a fine of Rs500,000 to settle a four-year-old dispute between two families. One child was five-year-old and the other only three. The mere idea of little girls being taken away from their families and living in bondage that could include being used for forced sexual interaction is bone-chilling. Yet, this happens ever so frequently. There is no justice in these systems where not only is marrying out of will considered a crime, but a teenage girl is forced to compensate for her brother’s decision to marry out of choice. The famous case of Mukhtaran Mai was the similar story. She was being compensated for his brother had alleged ties with a woman of strong Mastoi tribe. There tens of hundreds such cases and examples but there is no justice for such women because this injustice is performed by the powerful and mostly by those who claim to be custodian of Justice and legislation in Pakistan.
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