The Pakistani Spectator

Hatred makes a human an animal and hatred compels a human to inflict any kind of horror on the fellow human being. The easy and affordable nature of acid has made it the mostly used weapon of revenge. Husbands use it to punish their wives, boys use it to punish their defected girl friends or boy friends, and people use it to punish their enemies by throw and run.

Women are the mostly suffered victims of acid attack, especially in the rural areas. I recently visited a village near Sialkot to attend a marriage ceremony and came across a lady with horribly burnt face, neck and arms. Her story is gut-wrenching, gory and ghastly. She is a typical embodiment of the cruelty of the humans.

Razia Bibi was happily married with Bakhshish. Bakhshish was in the army and used to visit his house only once a month. One day last year, he was away at his duty, and Razia was alone at home with her “Daywer” (brother of Bakhshish), Aziz, and the mother of Bakhshish was out to market. Aziz came to his Razia and tried to seduce her. Razia protested and tried to get away, but wasn’t able to break the strong hold of Aziz. Aziz forcefully undressed Razia and started to grope her. The nude Razia was weeping and pleading with Aziz to leave her, then she broke away from Aziz and ran out of room. When she came out of room, Bakhshish mother entered the house and saw Razia nude. Bakhshish mother, without second thoughts started raising hell and Aziz came out after two minutes and feigned shock and surprise over her mother’s noise and over the nudity of Razia.

Razia went back in utter despair and pain, clothed herself and started convincing the ultra-angry mother of Bakhshish about her innocence. Then Bakhshish mother and Aziz tied Razia up and threw acid on her and threw her at her parent’s house, who rushed her to the hospital. It took Razia 6 hours to reach hospital after being thrown acid. She was divorced by Bakhshish and Aziz was on bail soon after he was arrested.

One of my very fast friend, Palwashay lives in Mardan and she told me a fresh incident in her neighbours, where a boy of 15 was the victim. It’s a common thing in the NWFP region (and some of the Punjabi regions) that males keep a boy as a friend. They often have a sexual relationship with the boy and they take care of that boy more than their families and everything else. But if the boy tries to defect or try to leave them, they just go mad and either kill the boy or maim him or throw acid on him.

Same was happened to Absar of Mardan. He became friend of Gul Agha who was of age 46 and used to be with him all the time. Another man Pari Gul of age 35 often tried to cajol Absar to leave Gul Agha and accept his friendship. At last Absar left Gul Agha and made nexus with Pari Gul. Gul Agha first tried to convince Absar to come back and upon his refusal threw acid on Absar and now Absar is in the hospital in a very critical condition. He is dying slowly and painfully.

There is no clear legislation for this crime and the perpetrators often get bail the next day when they are arrested. We as a society need to work together to eradicate this horrendous crime. What in the hell these NGOs are doing and what in the hell all these organizations of human rights are doing?

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