The only thing in which Pakistan is making development.

We have seen a series of rape cases for the last 73 years and in every case we just write some lines on our social accounts and the government also just pays attention to only some cases and this attention is also because of the social media and due to the protests of our so called “ghairati awaam” and then our all hue and cry finishes after 2 or 3 days and we again make ourselves busy in our daily and purposeless routine. Following are some cases in which we made noise and government acted upon it.

1.      The motorway case (9 September 2020).

2.       Islamabad’s Farishta case (15 May 2019).

3.       Mardan’s Asma case (14 January 2018).

4.       Kasur’s Zainab case (4 January 2018).

Since 2015, 22000 rape cases have been reported but only 77 culprits have been put behind the bars and just 4060 cases have been filed and just 731 cases have gone through the court proceedings and still 3329 cases are pending and this gives us the statistics that only 18 percent of the total reported cases have gone through the Judge’s eyes. The human rights authorities have expressed their concern that the total number of cases are up to 60000 and this huge number of undisclosed cases is because the victims and their families are being given threats by the culprits and even many times the police officials pressurizes the families not to pursue the case as it can bring a bad name to their family and tribe. Majority of the unreported cases are believed to be from Interior Sindh and Punjab where the wadera and chaudry system is so powerful that these types of cases usually blows like a wind and the victims and have no choice but to stay quiet and shed tears on their fates. The million-dollar question here is that why The mullahs and Sufis who portray themselves as the guardians of Islam are silent and just hide in their house when these cases are reported.

Is our government that incompetent and packed with the corrupt?  Can it really save our women from these monsters? It is the big question mark on the government’s performance whether they are serious or not, to tackle these issue and can they control this pathetic situation with such ill and myopic approach, where the daily rape average is 11. Now the ball lies in the courts of authorities.