Pakistan is perceived to be a growing nation and with advancements in many fields like Information Technology, Education and many more that prove to be the essence to shape a generation in the modern world. Yet there are some issues that lead to the backwardness of society and adversely affect the reputation of the country. One of the problems that is very highlighted and prominent is domestic violence against women.
Many ladies in Pakistan are exposed to abusive behavior at home. In our man-centric culture, men are urged to show their predominance over women and are required not to endure any sort of misconduct from ladies. It is additionally the situation that numerous men need to apply such power and authority over their spouses to demonstrate that they are “men with all the dignity in the world”.
In any case, lately, the public authority has significantly found a way to annihilate aggressive behavior at home. A helpline number was presented some time back by the public authority utilizing which ladies exposed to aggressive behavior at home could contact government authorities and look for help and insurance against their oppressors. As ladies began to get schooling, they turned out to be more mindful of their privileges eventually facing brutality and abuse. In the event that we pass by this term, aggressive behavior at home has diminished in the ongoing past.
Aggressive behavior at home isn’t just physical, yet verbal and mental as well. Numerous times ladies are provoked and offended by their spouses who misuse them on different events. Such conditions have irritated since the mid-2000s, as ladies have begun to work outside of their homes.
Honor killings, another severe type of aggressive behavior at home, are done for the sake of honor as the name proposes. These are commonly rehearsed in rustic zones where if a young lady is found to have such a connection with a man who isn’t her better half, is assaulted or killed to secure the honor and nobility of the family, with no bona fide proof now and again. Such young ladies are considered as a smudge on the family name for being engaged with men.
This training is considered as a piece of many sub-societies where individuals don’t understand that honor slaughtering of women falls under the boundaries of ‘endeavored murder’.
It is, in any case, imperative to make mindfulness about this issue, which Pakistan has made a move against. Expert movie producer Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy even delivered an Oscar winning-narrative named ‘A Girl in the River’ which spun around a young lady who evaded getting murdered for the sake of honor. Such films and narratives get broad public, just as global help and assume a significant function in teaching individuals. On September 16, Prime Minister Imran Khan, addressing the joint session of the two houses of parliament on the passing of the FATF bill, said:
“The motorway gang rape has shaken our entire country. Since [the news of the rape] we’ve been thinking of passing an excellent legislation so that in future our women and our children have protection. Lives are destroyed due to [sexual] abuse. Even lives of their families are destroyed. I was thinking, in particular, about children, what they went through. It’s a lifelong trauma.
Government backing and public mindfulness have achieved a reduction in the number of honor killings and in regions, for example, Lower Sindh and Baluchistan, there has been an expansion in the number of announced cases as more individuals think of it as wrongdoing currently when contrasted with before. The public authority has presented laws against honor killings, starting on 7 October 2016.
In Pakistan, honor executing cases were not detailed by any means. Notwithstanding, as mindfulness developed, individuals came to think about it as a terrible wrongdoing and in 2009 just 472 cases were accounted for.
The legislation on honour killings has introduced strict punishment for the convicts making it tougher than ordinary murder cases. Under the new law, relatives of the victim would only be able to pardon the killer if he is sentenced to capital punishment. However, the culprit would still face a mandatory life sentence of twelve-and-a-half years.
Pakistan is alleged to have a lot of rape cases each year. We agree that there have been many cases of sexual harassment and rape that have surfaced in the past few years. Women are constantly being subjected to violence and this is an act that we strongly condemn. To this end, the government of Pakistan has taken a number of steps to bring down the number of rape cases and to punish the rapists strictly in accordance with the law.
As of 7 October 2016, anti-rape bills have been passed by a joint session of the Parliament.
PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar, speaking in this regard, said, “The bill will prove to be effective in curbing rape cases across the country.”
According to this bill, DNA samples will be collected and examined as soon as possible.
Law minister Zaid Hamid stated, “The verdicts in the rape cases will have to be given within three months, with the right to appeal in six months. The police station will be obliged to inform the victims of their legal rights. We have made it mandatory that the culprit must be imprisoned for 25 years”
With the passing of this law, rape cases are expected to decrease in number as strict punishments and actions will be taken against the rapist.
By Umer Khan
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