Pakistan’s male dominated society and its ills
Assuming the role of a leader, the men of our society have been abusing their powers against women. Domestic violence, forced marriages, honor killings (Karo-Kari), marrying sisters to the Quran to ensure her share of property remains within the house, unequal treatment of daughters as compared to that of sons and the list goes on. The Pakistani justice system fails to ensure accountability.
This all has created a male dominated society where women have become as good as materials and not humans at all. All around the globe, the slogans of gender equality are being chanted since decades. But there haven’t been any significant changes to the poor treatment and deplorable state of women in every society.
Pakistan as a Muslim nation advocates the role of men as leaders of the household but fails to ensure that the men do not abuse this power against women in any way. There is a complete lack of accountability and justice in Pakistan which validate the atrocious behavior of men against women.
Pakistan’s Justice System
This state of Pakistani law and justice system has enabled many likes of privileged and non-privileged Zahir Jaffars. Many women and innocent girls have become prey like Noor Mukadam in every corner of Pakistan. Be it little Zainab, or the victim of highway rape incident – a helpless mother, or the victim of honor killing Qandeel Baloch, these all women had become victim of nothing else but a accountability free society.
Had there been strict enforcement of laws and regulations, women would have been in a better place to survive. We are in such a sad state that the least a woman can hope for is survival. Power, status and money have become the new law. But irrespective of these things, men still manage to stoop so low to rape, abuse, assault and sell women in every social economic class of the society. It is thus not a socio-economic class related issue rather a generally prevalent crime.
Conclusion
Pakistan needs to make more efforts than to hang the rapists and hand life imprisonment orders to the molesters. There is a lot that the government of Pakistan must do on ground levels. The justice system must hold men accountable for abusing their power as the leaders of the house. They must be brought before law for their wrong actions towards women and children.
Last but not the least, there should be Islamic law enforcement by letter and spirit to ensure a morally functioning society. We are currently a morally ill society; it breeds all kinds of haunting beasts in form of men like Zahir Jaffar. In order to cleanse our society, we must change as a society by enforcing strict laws and adopting Islamic laws. We have to become a safe place for every member alike. We have to become a place where mere survival is not the only reason to live.
