Domestic violence: Woman beaten for giving birth to a girl
Maliha Bibi, a resident of Mohalla Kunj Kehal, lodged a complaint with the Cantonment police that she was beaten by her mother-in-law Zakia Bibi and father-in-law Muhammad Nazeer, after they blamed her for failing to bear a son. She was taken to Women and Children Hospital Abbottabad while unconscious and she lodged the complaint when she regaining consciousness after several hours, said a police official.
The police quoted Bibi saying that she tried to reason with her in-laws that it is not up to her to bear a son or a daughter, rather it is up to God. However, she said her in-laws got furious and beating her up black and blue.
Doctors at the hospital said she lost consciousness after being hit on the head by a blunt object.
When the police questioned the in-laws, they admitted to having a brawl with Bibi but denied that she was beaten severely.
However, a police official later informed that Bibi retracted her complaint against her in-laws after reaching a compromise. She forgave her in-laws in a written statement to the police, he said.
When contacted, Bibi refused to speak to the media.
Bibi’s husband, Kamran, is an employee of a private company. The couple got married three years back.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2012.
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Muslims would claim " everything is mentioned in Quran" so why not dr Zakir naik or mullahs bring out an ayat from Quran to inform Ummah that child gender is determined by father and not by mother. This will help a lot.
This is what happens when societies start to collapse....bizarre nationalism mixed with an incorrect understanding of Islam, added to a complete lack of knowledge of our history and mistakes. Combine that with social, economic, military, intellectual, and political bankruptcy and you get Pakistan in its current state......
Perhaps. it is the duty of the mass media to inform these ignorant good for nothing husbands that the sex of the baby is determined by them and not the female.When would they realize and be grateful to Almighty God that they even could have children, there are millions of people who can not conceive a child. Forgiveness or not , this husband should be in jail to cool his heels for a while.
There is something wrong with this picture.. what the heck is the role of the state in protecting its citizens? Why do we allow victims to forgive their opressors without due process. The police should have filed a case and presented the culprits in front of a judge, who is the comptent authority to judge whether the forgiveness is for real or provided under duress. Even if it were for real the due process would have put the in-laws on notice to avoid a repeat of the incident. The judge could have also ordered the husband to keep his parents away from the woman... The police shoud not be given the role of the judiciary. This is unacceptable.
If some foolish people can't understand that the gender of the child is determined from the man's sperm which is either X or Y, then the only place for them is the city jail when they resort to such behaviour. If they really had to beat someone, they should have beaten their own son!