Once again Pakistan has hit the headline and earned the bad repute, however, not for its increasing terrorist or political controversies this time, but for ever degrading condition of women in the nation, generally dominated by male.
In Pakistan, women are not only subjected to financial discrimination, but they are also victims of inhuman customs and laws such as Karo Kari (honor killings) , Hadood ordinance and marriages to the Quran, recognized as a half witness in any case.
If you go through the statistics of Interior Ministry of Pakistan, you’ll find that the crime against women has increased thick and fast in the past two years. In all 17692 cases of violence against women have been registered nationwide that includes 612 cases of honor killing, 67 stove burst, 6 incidents of acid throwing, 2484 cases of sexual harassment and so on. And most of the cases were registered in Punjab province of Pakistan.
No doubt,Pakistan has been safe destination for world’s most wanted terrorists, but it is a hazardous place for the female folk. Like most other Muslim nations, condition of women isn’t too good in Pakistan. Usually the society is dominated by the male counterpart and freedom of women is just restricted to the four walls of the house. Even they have to endure an indifferent behavior within the home, curbing all the aspirations and dreams that women liberally cherish in open societies.
Aforesaid data is just the microcosm of the atrocities that the Muslim women across the world have to undergo in their man dominated societies. There are millions of such cases that never come to the fore. The incidence of wife-battering is so common that it is not even recognized as a pernicious form of violence against women. Discrimination against women begins in their childhood and continues throughout life. They are deprived of basic needs such as education, health care and so on.
Though, the women in most of the societies (barring the Western and few other) play the second fiddle after their male counterparts, but most of the Muslim societies put too much repressions - be it religious or social - to give any sort of freedom to their female populace, forcing them to live a deprived and indifferent life.
