Pakistan: Now or Never

What has happened to the nation of our Quaid ?Lets get united before it's too late ! It's NOW or NEVER!

Wednesday 5 December 2012

News Package - Encroachments


News Package - Encroachments

Group Members:
1) Uzair Ahmed Khan
2) Waleed Abrar
3) Faizan Ahmed Khan
4) Irtiza Ali Rizvi
5) Munsoor Ismail
6) Sarah Abbas
7) Tabassum Ali



News Package - Anarkali Food Street

News Package - Anarkali Food Street

Group Members:
1)Usman Masood
2)Nauman ul Haq
3)Ahmad Huziafa
4)Seerat Mugal
5)Khadija Saleem
6)Rakhshan Tahir




News Package - Shessha

News Package - Sheesha

Group Members :

1)Mamoon Tahir
2)Sofiaan Laeeq
3)Furqan Hussain
4)Ahmad Tashfeen
5)Rizwan Ullah
6)Meerab Irshad

Trafficking


There have been 1 million Bangladeshi and more than 200,000 Burmese women trafficked to Karachi, Pakistan.
200,000 Bangladeshi women were trafficked to Pakistan in the last ten years, continuing at the rate of 200-400 women monthly.

In Pakistan, where most of trafficked Bengali women are sold there are about 1,500 Bengali women in jail and about 200,000 women and children sold into in the slave trade. India and Pakistan are the main destinations for children under 16 who are trafficked in south Asia. More than 150 women were trafficked to Pakistan every day between 1991 and 1993. And now 100 - 150 women are estimated to enter Pakistan illegally every day. Few ever return to their homes.

There are over 200,000 undocumented Bangladeshi women in Pakistan, including some 2,000 in jails and shelters. Bangladeshis comprise 80 percent, and Burmese 14 percent, of Karachi¹s undocumented immigrants. A Bengali or Burmese woman could be sold in Pakistan for US$1,500 - 2,500 - depending on age, looks, docility and virginity. For each child or woman sold, the police claim a 15 to 20 percent "commission."
Women kidnapped at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border are being sold in the marketplace for R600 per kilogram as of 1991.
Auctions of girls are arranged for three kinds of buyers: rich visiting Arabs (sheiks, businessmen, visitors, state-financed medical and university students), the rich local gentry, and rural farmers.
19,000 Pakistani children have been trafficked to the United Arab Emirates. Orphaned girls are sold too.

Methods and Techniques of Traffickers

Bangladeshi and Burmese women are being kidnapped, married off to agents by unsuspecting parents, trafficked under false pretenses, or enticed by prospects of a better life, into brothels in Pakistan. Border police and other law enforcement agencies are well aware of the trafficking through entry points into Pakistan like Lahore, Kasur, Bahawalpur, Chhor and Badin. Nepalese and Bangladeshi woman and girls are trafficked under false pretenses, such as jobs, then are forced into prostitution in brothels in Pakistan. A rise in trafficking of girls, aged 8-15, in Pakistan has occurred during this last decade.

Policy and Law

Trafficked women are further victimized by the police and the legal system, which treat them as criminals. The women are booked under Pakistan's controversial 'Hudood Ordinances.' The Zina Ordinance, which comes under the Islamic Hudood Ordinance, makes adultery or sex outside marriage a crime against the state. Women and girls in prostitution are often charged with Zina. Sometimes, they are booked under the Passport Act. Either way, they have to spend long periods in prison. For illegal immigration, the sentence is four years, but many women end up serving three or four years extra, either waiting for trial or to clear immigration formalities.

The governments of Pakistan in the last 26 years have established three commissions of inquiry into the sexual exploitation of women. However, the government under Bhutto in the seventies, the Zia regime of the eighties and the present government have all disregarded the commission's recommendations.


Prostitution in the Islamic nation of Pakistan, once relegated to dark alleys and small red-light districts, is now seeping into many neighborhoods of country’s urban centers. Reports indicate that since the period of civilian rule ended in 1977, times have changed and now the sex industry is bustling.
Early military governments and religious groups sought to reform areas like the famous “Taxali Gate” district of Lahore by displacing prostitutes and their families in an effort to “reinvent” the neighborhood.

While displacing the prostitutes might have temporarily made the once small red-light district a better neighborhood for a time, it did little to stop the now dispersed prostitutes from plying their trade. Reforming a neighborhood, instead of offering education and alternative opportunities, appears to be at the core of early failures to curb the nascent sex industry. This mistake would become a prophetic error as now the tendrils of the sex trade have become omnipresent in cities like Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi and Lahore, not to mention towns, villages and rural outposts.

An aid worker for an Islamabad-based non-governmental organization recently related a story: quickly after his arrival in the capital, he realized the house next to his own was a Chinese brothel. The Chinese ability to “franchise” the commercial sex industry by providing down-trodden Chinese women throughout Asia, North America and Europe would be admirable in a business sense if it were not for the atrocities human trafficking, sexual slavery and exploitation which cloud its practice.

Chinese brothels, often operating as “massage parlors” or beauty salons, are across Pakistan, even spread even to war-torn and restive locations such as the Afghan capital Kabul. Chinese in the sex industry have developed a cunning ability to recognize areas where the demand for sex far outstrips the supply.

The NGO worker said that after months of living adjacent to the brothel things were shaken up literally. One evening a drunk Pakistani drove his car into the brothel. Later the driver told authorities the ramming was a protest by a devout Muslim against the debauchery of the house and its inhabitants. The NGO worker, however, had seen the same car parked peacefully outside the house the night before.

The local sex industry comprised of Pakistani prostitutes has also grown in recent years. One can easily find videos on YouTube that show unabashed red-light areas of Lahore. The videos display house after house with colorfully lit entranceways always with a mamasan and at least one Pakistani woman in traditional dress. The women are available for in-house services for as little as 400 rupees (US$6) to take-away prices ranging 1,000 to 2,000 rupees. These districts are mostly for locals, but foreigners can indulge at higher prices.

Foreigners in Pakistan have no trouble finding companionship and may receive rates similar to locals in downtrodden districts. More upscale areas like Lahore’s Heera Mundi or “Diamond Market”, cater to well-heeled locals and foreigners. At these places prettier, younger girls push their services for 5,000 to 10,000 rupees for an all-night visit, and the most exceptional can command 20,000 to 40,000 rupees for just short time.

Rumors abound online that female TV stars and actresses can be hired for sex. “You can get film stars for 50,000 to 100,000 rupees but you need good contacts for that,” one blogger wrote after a trip to Lahore.

“The Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi sex scenes are totally changing and it’s easier and easier to get a girl for sex,” another blogger wrote. “Most of the hotels provide you the girls upon request.” They also said: it is easy to find girls prowling the streets after 6 pm, and foreigners can find young women hanging out near Western franchises like McDonald’s and KFC. Such women, the bloggers claim, can lead the customer to a nearby short-time accommodation.

Short-time hotels offering hourly rates can be found all over major cities, underscoring the profits being reaped by the sex industry.

Pakistan can also accommodate the gay community with prostitution. Unfortunately, this has also given rise to child prostitution.

A Pakistani blogger wrote, “We Pathans are very fond of boys. The wives are only. There are lot of gay brothels in Peshawar – the famous among them is at Ramdas Bazaar. One can go to any Afghan restaurant and find young waiters selling sex.”

As in many societies, access to technology, the Internet and mobile phones has only facilitated the sex trade in Pakistan. “Matchmaking” websites serve the male clientele, while providing marketing for prostitutes.

The root causes of prostitution in Pakistan are poverty and a dearth of opportunities. Widows find themselves on the streets with mouths to feed, and for many prostitution offers a quick fix. A local Pakistani prostitute can earn 2,000 to 3,000 rupees per day compared to the average monthly income of 2,500 rupees.

Forced prostitution is not rare. Women in hard times are often exploited and pushed into prostitution. Sandra (not her real name), said that after the death of her father she was left alone; friends and relatives deserted her after the grieving period. As a middle-class, educated woman she was surprised to find herself forced into prostitution from her office job.

“My boss initially spoiled me at first,” she told Khaleej Times. “now I am in [the sex industry].” Sandra first thought her boss was being gracious, but quickly learned he was grooming her for sex for his own pleasure, and then acting as her pimp.

Many of Pakistan’s contemporary sexual mores may have evolved from traditional practices. For example, the polygamy permitted in Muslim society stemmed from the need for larger family units, the better to support familial ties and tend for widows. Until such ancient customs are updated, women such as Sandra will continue to be bought and sold.

It’s time for Pakistan to admit that prostitution is doing a roaring trade within its borders, and will continue to prosper until it is addressed in a modern manner. Let us hope that the people and government of this proud Muslim country will stop pretending the problem simply isn’t there.

Awais Zahid
Sec F

Domestic Violence


As far as the nature of violence is concerned, “public” violence has been much easier to address since it is open to scrutiny and public condemnation. “Privacy” is the main impediment to the recognition and consequent action against domestic violence. This is also because women have historically been relegated to the “private” sphere, and the home is viewed as a concealed location. It is necessary to avoid reducing domestic violence to essentialism and recognise that it needs to be viewed through the appropriate cultural lens of the country in question. The western model of domestic abuse looks at the problem through the lens of gender. While the abuse of women in the family continues to depend on structural inequality in the family unit, this inequality cannot be explained away through gender differentials or though the popular, one-word oversimplification that is “patriarchy.” The abuse of female servants in the domestic sphere may be at the hands of upper-class women – and here, the power hierarchy of class cuts through that of gender. Similarly, the burning of brides, for instance, is often perpetrated by the mother-in-law rather than the husband, which gives one the sense that women can be just as complicit in maintaining and perpetuating patriarchal structures as men can.


Women victims of domestic violence encounter high levels of unresponsiveness and hostility, as actors at all levels of the criminal justice system typically view domestic violence as a private matter that does not belong in the courts. Police respond to domestic violence charges by trying to reconcile the concerned parties rather than filing a report and arresting the perpetrator, and the few women who are referred to medico-legal doctors for examination are evaluated by skeptical physicians who lack any training in the collection of forensic evidence. When asked about the domestic violence victims who have been examined at his office, the head medico-legal doctor for Karachi explained that "25 percent of such women come with self-inflicted wounds. " Research has further indicated that domestic violence cases are virtually never investigated or prosecuted, which makes it even more difficult to understand from which angle the issue needs to be approached.





Nouman - ul - Haq
Sec F






Injustice in education gives birth to conflicts in our country


System of education is different for different classes of people. There are two major system of education. One for rich that is English medium chains of schools with expensive uniform, expensive school activities such as school functions. But schools for poor are government schools with Urdu medium of education and no updated syllabus no proper buildings and shelter for students, students gets education in open grounds. No schools for poor with proper seating arrangements or any facilities etc. Fee for poor and rich are different. There are different categories of schools with different fees for the same class and students. Rich feels proud to pay high fees and poor just pay with great difficulty. There are different fee schedules for government schools and rich private schools.Admission criteria are different for rich and poor. People with money are privileged to get admission anywhere in the world, whereas, poor seeks admission for basics with great difficulty. There is no place for poor in institutions of high standards.

This different education builds different mind sets of people which results in occurrence of conflicts in the society. A very common example for this can be seen that people who have studied in mudrassa have soft corners for Taliban and al-Qaida where as the people of English medium sees them as a threat to whole human kind

We should try to eliminate illiteracy and different education systems for rich and poor. we should introduce the education system through which the education is same for rich and poor. Our government should take proper and practical initiatives   to bring illiteracy rate down and give quality education and equal opportunity for students in urban and rural area. We should provide basic health facilities to the poor people which are living in remote area s so that we can reduce conflicts from our country




Zergham Khan
Sec F





United We Stand, Divided We Fall


Survival of Pakistan has never been as difficult as it is today, from the very first day of its inception Pakistan is surrounded by many challenges. Our opponent thought this state will not last long but Pakistan was made in the name of Allah; as the Muslims of subcontinent demanded a separate homeland where they can spend their lives according to the principle of Islam.
It is now our duty to respect the lives of our martyrs who sacrificed their lives for their generations. Today Pakistan is facing even greater threats. It’s a do or die situation for Pakistan, it’s Now or Never. Whether we safe Pakistan or lose Pakistan. Our enemies are getting stronger day by day, minute to minute. We cannot just sit on our hands, our thinking how worse situation have become. We have to do something and we got to do now.

Pakistan has more than 60% of its population which is youth. Youth is very important for the development of any nation. As youth is always considered as “nation builders”. Youth can not only impact its role in development of economy but also upbringing of morale and practically support their nation.

Pakistan is 7th nuclear in the world and very mighty when it comes to weapon and army but very weak when the subject of unity comes up. Our people are divided, we have build up so much social differences that we now consider us separate nation. There is a huge contradiction in our thoughts. We should always remember the quotes from our wise men who said “united we stand, divided we fall”.

Our youth has a great responsibility to check the differences and stand united. For this purpose joints session should be held where representatives from different mindset should get along for a consensus. In this worse situation it is very important to remove internal disputes. It is the time now that we should start showing some maturity over the present prices and awake from lumber sleep. We should focus on gravity of problems and think for their solutions. To counter all the problem it’s our first duty to get educated and impart civil education to secure better future. Hence youth can play its significant role in education of our citizens. Education is one of the basic problems. Education should need not to be associated with high fi schools or over educated lecturers. Instead healthy education and passion to educate is required.

As we all know that Pakistan is surrounded by multiple crises and without the active participation of youth, challenges cannot be met. It is very encouraging that majority of our youth support democracy and they want peaceful change. We should always remember that peace is the road to prosperity. The scenario become even optimistic when studies showed that majority of the youth also want to get volunteer but only 17% want to work for existing political parties. It is the dire need of the our that a positive leadership likes Quaid-e-Azam to come up and lead the youth through example like Quaid did through his ability, skills, passions and hard work. Motivations and encouragement is very important to boost youth. A major problem our youth is facing is that our youth is being discouraged, exploited and humiliated by corrupt lobby but youth should keep in mind that our journey is hopeless but we should develop optimistic thinking.

We now have to work for our youth because youth is frustrated, they do not get jobs, no healthy entertainments. Our education lack quality and skills which is necessary to survive in the world which claims the survival of the fittest. Our education even suffers from discord; there is no single education system rich get different from the poor. Our universities have become degree distributing institutes. Recent studies have shown that Pakistan is the 7Th most corrupt nation in world which faces poverty, child labor, suicide, unemployment and many other problems. As majority of population is youth hence these problems are also faced by youth. If youth is in problem the nation is in problem and on the other hand if the young majority of our nation work hard and fight for a good life then it will also help the country to rise up from destructions of poverty, unemployment, corruption and instability. It is now our youth to represent themselves and  their country through different mediums of communications including print and electronic media. Youth can bring the invaded heritage and culture back to its original place. Governments along with youth can boost up the process of development by getting good and encouraging teachers, avoid politics in education, start campaigns for education and target 100% literacy rate, prevent brain drain, providing right men for right job, youth should be at arm’s length from bad corrupted companies. We are surrounded by crises and problems but it should be kept in mind ‘crisis breed opportunities’.

If we allocate and utilize or recourses efficiently then we can be among the first world nations too. More over we have to change our attitude and approach to be based on sensibility, responsibility, tolerance and patience.

Meerab Irshad 
Sec F
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