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Home turmoil
The greatest need for a child is love while growing. When a child receives love and is understood well by parents and dear ones, the growth is beyond measure.
But unfortunately, when the same love turns into abuse and violence, children be-come prey to various crises such as mental instability, social underdevelopment and existential crises.
It is estimated that when children are exposed to violence at home, they are at high risk for long-term physical and mental health problems. Children who witness violence between parents may also be at great risk of being violent in their future relationships.
Unfortunately, in countries like Pakistan where poverty is at its peak and education and health facilities are lacking, violence is an everyday occurrence in many lives. Domestic violence is an endemic social and public health issue in Pakistan. Parents, guardians and authorities should look into the matter very wisely.
Moreover, at home, parents should take care of how they behave with each other in front of their children. In the same token, they also need to be cautious about the ways they deal with their children because exposure to violence at an early age may harm the children and cause anxiety, depression, emotional distress, eating and sleeping disturbances.
SHAHZAIB NOOR
Via email
Unsafe tourism in India
Since the BJP’s rise in the corridors of power, the Modi media has been hitting Pakistan unfairly, targeting it to being the sole propagator of terrorism and unsafe haven for the women and foreigners specifically. Few days back, in Jharkhand, India, a female tourist was sexually harassed and her spouse beaten barbarically by 7 men. They were travelling India from west Bengal to Nepal, but one night stay in Jharkhand turned into a memorable nightmare.
It is not the sole case reported. In 2023, a Korean blogger was sexually harassed in India, the same year a Dutch tourist was molested and stabbed in Goa. In 2013, a Swiss tourist was assaulted sexually by six leviathans. According to data by the government of India, every 18 minutes, a woman is harassed in India.
Sexual harassment is heinous transgression, raising ethical concerns for woman security and safety at public places. Notwithstanding India merely, there are multifarious countries that are simmering under such quagmire. The abject malaise has sundry origins. Ineffective security and law and order systems, primarily in third world countries with humongous illiterate population and paltry social awareness, are crucial faces that strengthen the crime ratio.
The indiscreet crime of molesting females has splayed deeper into public offices and educational institutions. What prevails in their spread is lack of judicial security to the victims and inadequate provisions to abstain from the flow of crime. The cause of offensive crime compulsorily requires special obligations from the national governments of various countries. To make places haven, it is substantively mandatory to promulgate harsh sentences, publicly application of punishments so that perpetrators could inhibit their salacious desire of injuring women.
SAJID ALI NAICH
Khairpur Nathan Shah, Sindh
Women rights’
In this 21st century women have to do a lot to take breath, they have to do a lot of struggle to achieve life, it’s a myth that lies in people’s minds about women and they are hinging the rights of women. According to 2022 women literacy rate is (49.6%) it means that there are still 50% of women who still don’t know the spelling of their name, according to global gender gap index Pakistan ranked 145 out 146, it’s not the position to be rewarded, it’s embarrassed rank for us.
As per women peace and security index Pakistan ranked 4th among most dangerous countries for women with percentage of 0.476. As far as concern of health then it is also not declared well.
What a great achievement we have for the women out in the country, is this the country for which Quaid-i-Azam aimed for? She is going through a disappointing phase because of its people, they can’t change their thinking, they can’t change their society narratives then we don’t have the right to say women are safe, women are independent, women have the right to education, women have respect. Women have to compromise because she is a woman, women have to sacrifice her career because of the marriage she has to do because she is a woman, women have to leave the job because of her children she has to leave because she is a woman, women have to do home chores she has to do because she is a woman.
AREEBA ALTAF
Via email
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Recent Hyderabad incident made me realise that how much freedom we women have, we do not have freedom to say No, we do not have freedom to live what we want, we do not have freedom to express our feelings, we are killed for saying no, our dreams are shattered for expressing our feelings, our struggles are wasted for uttering just one word of denial, we are abused for talking about out rights, we are beaten for taking action for our physical integrity and rights.
We are forced to bury our dreams for family sake. We are only supposed to do whatever society says.
The world turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to our sufferings, our peace and our freedom, we are only left with shallow bodies and hollow souls battered with unbearable wounds and pain.
TASAWER FATIMA
Sukkur, Sindh
