Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts

The woman in your life...very well expressed...


Tomorrow you may get a working woman, but you should marry her with these facts as well.

Here is a girl, who is as much educated as you are;
Who is earning almost as much as you do;

One, who has dreams and aspirations just as
you have because she is as human as you are;

One, who has never entered the kitchen in her life just like you or your
Sister haven't, as she was busy in studies and competing in a system
that gives no special concession to girls for their culinary achievements

One, who has lived and loved her parents & brothers & sisters, almost as
much as you do for 20-25 years of her life;

One, who has bravely agreed to leave behind all that, her home, people who love her, to adopt your home, your family, your ways and even your family ,name

One, who is somehow expected to be a master-chef from day #1, while you sleep oblivious to her predicament in her new circumstances, environment and that kitchen

One, who is expected to make the tea, first thing in the morning and cook
food at the end of the day, even if she is as tired as you are, maybe more,
and yet never ever expected to complain; to be a servant, a cook, a mother,
a wife, even if she doesn't want to; and is learning just like you are as
to what you want from her; and is clumsy and sloppy at times and knows that you won't like it if she is too demanding, or if she learns faster than you;

One, who has her own set of friends, and that includes boys and even men at her workplace too, those, who she knows from school days and yet is willing to put all that on the back-burners to avoid your irrational jealousy, unnecessary competition and your inherent insecurities;

Yes, she can drink and dance just as well as you can, but won't, simply
Because you won't like it, even though you say otherwise

One, who can be late from work once in a while when deadlines, just like yours, are to be met;

One, who is doing her level best and wants to make this most important,
relationship in her entire life a grand success, if you just help her some
and trust her;

One, who just wants one thing from you, as you are the only one she knows in your entire house - your unstained support, your sensitivities and most importantly - your understanding, or love, if you may call it.

But not many guys understand this......

Please appreciate "HER"

I hope you will do....

PAKISTAN: The induction of new ministers shows violent, anti-women sentiments seeping back into political vogue

In June 2006 a five member bench of Supreme Court judges ordered police in Kashmore, Sindh province to arrest a PPP leader and national assembly member, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, for involvement in Sang Chatti (offering young girls as blood money). He was accused, along with others, of offering a total of five young girls as blood money in two separate cases. Most of the girls were under seven years old. Police neglected to follow up on the order and, after some time keeping his head low, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani has become federal minister of Education.

Pakistan's legal process has long been derailed by illegal jirga courts -- gatherings of powerful men in rural areas, who act as judge and jury. They may once have had a legitimate role in the settlement of tribal disputes, but over the years jirgas have become exposed as little more than mob trials, manipulated by rich, powerful and often vengeful men, egged on by spectators. The men mete out death with regularity; two thirds of the condemned are women who have no say in a jirga, and who die the most brutal of deaths. Jirgas have been illegal since 2004.

This August, Balochistan Senator Sardar Isarullah Zehri, along with Senator Jan Mohammad Jamail (the deputy chairman of the Senate), chose to defend as custom, a jirga-ordered 'honour killing' in his province: the burying of three teenage girls and two of their aunts alive. (The case is yet to be properly investigated). At the end of October Mr. Zehri was inducted as a minister of state.

Mr. Bijarani eventually had his charges waived by Mr. Abdul Hameed Dogar, who was inserted into the system by then-President Musharraf after Justice Iftekhar Chaudry was deposed. The AHRC fears for the future of an already flaccid education system.

The message sent by such appointments is irreversibly damaging, both to Pakistan's world reputation and to the faith of its people in its system of justice. The government has repeatedly pledged to tackle illegal jirgas and honour killings, both deeply entrenched problems, yet by placing men with archaic beliefs and fundamentalists pasts within the system, it clearly has no intention of doing so. For the average Pakistani the message is clear: power is impunity; for the world, it appears that the tribal and feudal hierarchy is seeping back into power once again.

Baseer Naweed
Senior Researcher, South Asia Desk

PAKISTAN: A girl is mauled by dogs and later killed on the pretext of an honour killing

AHRC-STM-274-2008
October 26, 2008

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission

PAKISTAN: A girl is mauled by dogs and later killed on the pretext of an honour killing

In May of this year a Jirga, an illegal tribal court, was held against a girl of 17 years in which she was declared her as Kari (having had an illicit relationship with someone). This was done, according to the tribal traditions, to justify her earlier murder by members of her own family. The Jirga was held at Hajna Shah Goth, Ahmedpur, Pir jo Goth, Khairpur Mirs District under the chairmanship of Mr. Sain Allad Dad Solangi, the head of the Solangi tribe of Sindh province.

According to the information, received only recently, after a land dispute, Ms. Taslim Solangi, age 17, was pressured to ask her parents to hand over all their property, including six acres of cultivated land and cattle farms to her uncle. On her refusal the perpetrators abducted her father, Gul Sher and detained him at his younger brother's house.

At the same location on March 7, 2008, Taslim was subjected to the cruellest possible ordeal. She was made to run before a pack of dogs that bit at her legs until, exhausted, she fell to the ground where they continued to maul her. She was subsequently shot by Zameer Solangi in the presence of her father in order to intimidate him. Also present were Mr. Karim Bux, who is also an uncle of the girl and a councillor in local bodies. It was due to the influence of these persons that the police took no action in the killing and land dispute. Later, in May Mr. Karim arranged a jirga in order to justify the killing and obtain impunity for all his brothers. The Jirga was conducted by Mr. Sain Allah Dad, a powerful land lord of the Pir Jo Goth. Furthermore, Mr. Abdul Qayum, a wealthy person of the area, was fined Rs. 400,000/= and threatened by the killers and the elders of the tribe to confess to the crime of having had an illicit relationship with Tasleem. He was threatened with death if he refused to do so.

In the absence of rule of law and a proper prosecution system the powerful people, who are at the same time representatives of people at different levels, are enjoying impunity and using their power against a very marginal section of the society. The family of Gul Sher has left their house and village and all his property is under the control of killers. However, as stated earlier, the police and people's representatives have taken no action in their support. The powerful people know that police and law can be purchased at any price so they enjoy the weaknesses of authorities.

The Asian Human Rights Commission urges the government to have a proper investigation into the horrific murder of Ms. Tasleem Solangi on the pretext of honor killing. The dreadful death of this innocent girl was purely for the purpose of grabbing her father's land. This is yet another example of the use of honour killings in order to settle personal disputes.

The writ of the provincial governments is looking very weak before the powerful and political personalities. The political expediency to get more support from usurpers has weakened the legal systems of the country. The government of Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Gillani should take immediate action in this case.



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Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
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