Authorities concerned must take immediate and deterrent action to block out porn websites and stamp out drug mafias
SHIKARPUR: As if children’s sexual abuse and their ruthless killings were not horrifying, incest cases are increasing in Sindh. It is high time to highlight these gut-wrenching incidents.
Though we have time and again come across such cases through the Sindhi media, two such cases which took place the other day in Bhiria are not only utterly unbelievable, but they are extremely reprehensible. It is because of social stigma and defamation and because there is no law that punishes perpetrators of incest in Pakistan, almost all such cases are not reported, and the victim silently has to bear sexual torture.
In one case, after being arrested by police, a man confessed that he had been raping her two daughters, both divorcee, for nearly a year. The police took action against him when the victims that approached the police and filed a written complaint against their father. As nobody believed their ordeal, the victims managed to film a video tape of their father, which later on was submitted to the police for further investigation.
In another such case in the same area, a paternal uncle is alleged to have broken into a house and sexually assaulted her niece, a minor girl. Later on the mother singlehandedly protested and demanded the justice. Exposure to sex via pornography, drug addiction, perversion, sexual relations with those with whom such relationship is forbidden, moral depravity, can lead to incest. The beast in man needs to be caged.
The authorities concerned must take immediate and deterrent action to block out porn websites and stamp out drug mafias. Our society is facing many evils that are hindering progress. One of the evils is to do things on a grand scale to show off. Countries which achieved independence much later than us have moved far ahead of us mainly because they do not believe in showing off their wealth and practise thrift.
Riaz Ahmad Soomro
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2019.
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