{"id":56599,"date":"2015-11-30T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=56599"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:35:47","slug":"the-case-of-gbs-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2015\/11\/30\/the-case-of-gbs-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of GB\u2019s Daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syed Haider Kazmi<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cZainab why do you not go to college? You like to study. Don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cYes, I like to go to college for studies and also to meet my friends there, but, er…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to go to college on foot and the depraved boys harass me on my way. Some pass offensive comments and some even stalk me. That\u2019s why I seldom go there\u201d, she said.\u00a0Zainab was a\u00a0student of F.A. at Government Girls College, Skardu.\u00a0Why did I use the word \u201cwas\u201d? Let me tell you the reason.<\/p>\n

One month after our conversation, the depressed Zainab became a psychological\u00a0patient, because of the constant harassment she had faced, and quit the college. This\u00a0is not the only case of its\u00a0kind.<\/p>\n

In March 2 boys had raped a college girl while she was returning home from her academy. The victim\u2019s family had taken the \u201cbrave\u201d step of lodging an\u00a0FIR and the court, to its credit, had indicted the criminals.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many cases are not reported by the victims in our society, as they do not want to become victimized and stigmatized in front of the society where women are often accused of acts which were not done by them.<\/p>\n

In most cases of sexual harassment, victims sew their lips and do not make complains because they know that the\u00a0complaints would become counter-productive for them, in the society where women are treated as inferior species.<\/p>\n

Last week a girl from Skardu committed suicide. The girl, R, was being harassed and blackmailed by a wicked boy. She reportedly complained to her fiance and parents about the culprit but all efforts were in vain. The situation had also created misunderstandings between the couple. At last, the depressed and oppressed girl killed herself.<\/p>\n

Harassment is not only a civil offence but a punishable crime in Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Penal Code, section 509, any act, the use of word, sound or gesture with the intend to harass any woman \u201cshall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years or with fine up to five hundred thousand rupees or with both\u201d. According to law, any victim of harassment can sue against culprits but the dilemma is that the society, as whole, wants to preserve its fake image by hiding these nasty crimes of harassment.<\/p>\n

‘R’ thought that she had no option other than the commission of suicide. So, she opted to escape from the hypocrite society. Do you also want to escape, or do you want to put up a fight against these discrimination and unjust norms of the society?<\/p>\n

The writer is a student of Law and International Relations.\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syed Haider Kazmi \u201cZainab why do you not go to college? You like to study. Don\u2019t you?\u201d She said: \u201cYes, I like to go to college for studies and also to meet my friends there, but, er…\u201d \u201cBut what?\u201d \u201cI used to go to college on foot and the depraved boys harass me on my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-op-ed"],"better_featured_image":{"id":56600,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":403,"height":325,"file":"2015\/11\/Syed-Haider.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Syed-Haider-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syed-Haider.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"120x85":{"file":"Syed-Haider-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syed-Haider-120x85.jpg"},"150x150":{"file":"Syed-Haider-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syed-Haider-150x150.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Syed-Haider-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syed-Haider-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"","orientation":0}},"post":56599,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syed-Haider.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Syed-Haider.jpg?fit=403%2C325&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56627,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56599\/revisions\/56627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}