I was born in Poonch (Kashmir) and now I live in Norway. I oppose war and violence and am a firm believer in the peaceful co-existence of all nations and peoples. In my academic work I have tried to espouse the cause of the weak and the oppressed in a world dominated by power politics, misleading propaganda and violations of basic human rights. I also believe that all conscious members of society have a moral duty to stand for and further the cause of peace and human rights throughout the world.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
The root causes of brutal crimes against women in India and Pakistan
Nasir Khan, May 31, 2014 How can such crimes be prevented? It
seems there are no easy answers. On the one hand there is much adoration
and lip-service to traditions and family-values in tradition-bound
Indian and Pakistani societies. On the other hand in such
tradition-bound patriarchal societies, the status of women is one of
inequality and subordination. Women have no option than to obey the
commands of their male family-members and comply with their wishes. There
exists a vicious circle of traditions and misguided use of old
religious edicts to oppress and misuse women. No doubt, to seek
retribution and show our emotional outrage are our justified responses
to such events as has happened in India in this case and also in
Pakistan recently when a young girl was battered to death by her
relatives in the name of ‘family honour’ to justify such an abominable
barbaric killing. But the question remains: Can we
improve the condition of women in traditional societies without pointing
to the sources of oppression? In the name of old traditions every year
thousands of women are genitally mutilated, many are killed in the name
of ‘family honour’ and countless millions suffer physical torture and
oppression. That means the sources that lie in old traditions and the
misuse of religious teachings should be publicly discussed by the media.
Here comes the role of the enlightened members of society who
understand the problem and who can use their knowledge and skills to
devise strategies that can help us to spread the message amongst the
people and help us fight against these social ills.
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Two Teenage Girls Gang Raped, Murdered, and Left Hanging from Tree in Latest Gruesome Sexual Assault in India
Protestors rally after five-year-old girl was allegedly raped, tortured and kept in captivity for 40 hours in April 2013.
REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
India’s deeply troubling problem of sexual violence towards women
sunk to a new, gruesome low on Wednesday. Two teenage sisters in rural
northern India were abducted from fields near their home and gang raped
before being strangled by their attackers and then left hanging by
nooses from a mango tree. “The girls, who were 14 and 15, had gone into
the fields because there was no toilet in their home,” the Associated Press reports.
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