We don’t need no morals

Poverty, greed and lust have damaged our society. Our people are ready to butcher each other for money. For some, it is the only way to survive poverty, while others commit crimes only to fulfil their greed and accumulate money.

Even little girls have fallen victim to these predators in the past few months. What adds insult to injury is the fact that a lot of people do not report these incidents because it would affect the marriage proposals received by their sisters or daughters when they are all grown up.

Just in the past few weeks, two heinous crimes were committed against minor age girls in Punjab. One incident involved a resident of Sahalan Basti, Lal De Goth, Bahawalpur, who killed his five-year-old niece because he wanted to snatch her gold earrings — which amounted to half a tola of gold. After killing his niece, he threw her body in the nearby fields and fled. The parents found her body with visible cuts on her ears, somewhere in the fields. According to the SHO at the Saddar police station in Bahawalpur, the criminal was arrested and the gold earrings were found in his pocket. The neighbours told media persons that the perpetrator of the crime was a drug addict.

In another incident in the same area, another minor girl was also attacked (raped, according to the final medical reports) and dumped in the fields, only to be discovered by her father, accompanied by a few villagers. Local police officers were quick to arrest the culprit who had fled the crime scene earlier. Media persons were informed that the victim is a six-year-old girl and the accused is her 15-year-old neighbour, who abducted and raped her.

All these cases show that Pakistan has no laws put in place against those who commit such heinous crimes in the country. The people of the area have appealed to the higher-ups to implement the laws strictly against those who commit crimes against children. There should be a strict moral code of conduct, and not the chaos we allow.

Even after the occurrence of such heart-rending incidents, no politician went to meet the victims and their families, and no compensation was provided. All politicians’ claims of being humanitarians have been rendered false. These people do everything they do for the sake of politics, not for humanity.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 21^st, 2013.