Honor Killings. Victims die. Allah, Where are you? Mushhead RiffRaff Musharaff, What are you doing about it? Read and cry--JPR
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Helplessness By Hafizur Rahman
For this I cite, as an example, the recent news report from Muridke, a small town near Lahore, of how two young boys from a poor family killed their two sisters aged 16 and 18 in desperation and despair. The girls were harassed and
mauled by the chaudhries of the village whenever they went out, and the boys and their father could do nothing to prevent it. To them putting away their sisters seemed to be the only way out.
The chaudhries of any village, even if they don't own the place, consider themselves de facto proprietors on the strength of their clout with the
administration and the police, and any poor man standing up to them must suffer in one way or another. With rare exceptions they are the gangsters of the locality, the mafia, and they know that their opponents are most
vulnerable where their women are concerned. This kind of thing is going on all the time in Punjab and Sindh. |
