I.A. Rehman INDICATIONS that the government is planning to act proactively in addressing the grievances of the minority communities can only be welcomed. Fortunately, no time-consuming inquiry is needed to ascertain the nature and extent of minorities’ plight; much that should be done to ameliorate their lot is known. For several years, minorities in Pakistan have been agitating for …
News Desk Child sexual abuse cases are on the rise in Pakistan. In Islamabad only, 300 cases of child sexual abuse were registered over the last five years, while another 260 cases went unregistered, a Senate panel was informed on Monday. Over 3,440 cases of child abuse had been reported last year, according to data collected by a non-governmental organisations. …
A report in Dawn shed light on attitudes that still exist towards the female child through interviews with would-be mothers who had to abort their daughters upon family pressure, health practitioners who are apprehensive about revealing the gender of the child, and welfare workers who take in abandoned children — mostly girls. It presented a gloomy picture of prevalent attitudes …
By Aziz Ali Dad When a society and its values become weaker, it denies existence of maladies within and attributes exogenous actors and factors for its own condition. This bent of mind in its turn begets a gamut of fallacies, sick morality, bad faith, weak metaphors and vocabulary that hides more than reveal by enunciating its stance …
