COMMENTARY

 “Increasing injustices is a big dilemma in Pakistan’s society”

By

Rida Ali

Increasing injustice is a full blown dilemma confronting Pakistani society. There are plenty of reasons of this prevailing inequality which is going to be increasing day by day and because of this people suffered their life specially the poor peoples and the reason which i want to high spot that the unavailability of free judiciary system .The judiciary system is a backbone of any country but in Pakistan the state of affairs is far different. The crime and rate system is increasing day by day and also other social problems which are a living example of in justice and the mostly victim of injustice are women’s and adolescent girls. The other major problem in Pakistan is corruption; one could hardly find any proper institution or governing body, which is free from this curse. Pakistan police is for the protection of their people, and to provide justice, or to keep up the law and order in the country. But regrettably, they’re actions are diametrically opposite; due to their reputation as the most corrupt institution in Pakistan. 

Rampant Police Corruption

Pakistani police has the reputation of being one of the most corrupt institutions in the country. Instead of punishing the reported criminal, they punish the innocent victims of the crime. There are many criminal cases reported, where police imprisons innocent people, while releasing the perpetrators, by accepting monetary bribes. Target killing in Karachi and the injustice in Muzaffargarh are the major examples of injustices which public has to cope.  Pakistan Police, the guardians of public peace and security, have failed to cope with the state of affairs since the founding of Pakistan. Many criminal acts in Pakistani society go unpunished due to the callousness and insensitivity of police. Due to the rule of criminals in our society, our people live their lives facing innumerable injustices. They are mentally, physically suppressed. Every person tries to get justice through approaches and contacts with people in corridors of power.  Therefore, they delegate their basic human rights to those in power and authority. This perpetual vicious cycle continues unabated for 65 years and there is no end in sight for rolling over over the rights of those with less power. The powerful feudalistic politicians deprive 180 million Pakistanis of their basic rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness in a safe environment. The middle class people are vehemently angry at the power elites on whom they have no control. People power in Pakistan has been hijacked by industrial, feudal, and clannish or Biradari based elites. The poor economic strata of society are serfs. They have no power. The face injustices every day, but cannot do anything to redress their grievances. Economically backward Pakistanis are the majority of this Agro country’s population, along with the thin sliver of middle class. Both these strata of Pakistani society face innumerable indignities and injustices. Their stress level is alarmingly high. Previously, the corruption of civil administration was interrupted by episodes of martial law. But, the military is in no mood to upset the apple cart of democracy. Therefore, we continue to follow our “Bhedh Chaal” or “same-old, same-old” attitude. The power lies with those who are economically strong and the poor are being crushed under the weight of corruption of the “haves.” Economically deprived population cannot even stand-up for their rights because the power has been stolen from them.

 Pakistan’s history is replete with cases of injustices against women. If we go through in the past history of see those buried faces of girls, who have been forcibly assaulted. Instead of punishing the rapist, Pakistani society punishes the rape victim. The victim of a gang rape in Pakistan recently died after setting herself on fire in protest against a police report that led to the release of a key suspect, a doctor and her brother said. College student Amina Bibi died after dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight on Thursday outside a police station near Muzaffargarh, in Punjab.

No one is there to listen poor rape victims’ shrieks of terror and pain; just because of they are born in a poor or economically deprived family. Economic and political power in Pakistan is kept strongly under the perpetual grip of rural and industrial elite. It is represented as a majority in executive, legislature, and judiciary. The Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is a dollar multibillionaire, in a society whose per capita income is less than $ 10 a day. On top of this inequity, Pakistan’s poor and economically deprived form majority of those killed by terrorist attacks, perpetrated by TTP and a hundred other splinter groups. Innocent people are viciously killed without any rhyme or reason. They are victims of terrorists, who do not differentiate between innocent or guilty, without any discrimination of age, gender, creed, or ethnic class.  Pakistani women have been victims of terrorism exported from abroad through fanatical religious organizations, liberally funded by rich foreign sponsors like Saudi Arabia, and Gulf Nations. Internally, hundreds of thousand women are murdered, kidnapped, subjected to spousal abuse, and raped in Pakistan every year by the feudals, gangsters, political goons, smugglers, drug and political feudal mafias. People have become immune to news of violence and abuse against women. They are blasé to incidence of rapes. A rape victim seldom gets justice, unless some foreign government or NGO takes up their cause. This alarming situation raises serious questions about governance and justice, and protection of women. People are asking, “Who is going to provide justice for those people, who lost their dear ones or their whole families? Where is the justice? Where are our Rulers?  Who would give assurance to the victim families that the culprits will be brought to justice and criminally prosecuted to the full extent of the law? What this democratic regime had done to redress the grievances of the peoples?

Law & Order. 

Nothing Has Being Done By Federal Government to Control Law and Order Situation in Pakistan

Nothing! In order to sort out the problems of victim’s rights within the judicial process, laws are in the books for display and appeasing international monitoring agencies. But, practically nothing whatsoever has been done to protect women from the menace of sexual subjugation and violence. Pakistan government has done nothing to provide protection to women victims of violence. To overcome the injustices in society, people look towards the leadership of the judicial system. Protection of Human rights of the citizen is the responsibility of Pakistan Government, under PM Nawaz Sharif. It is his duty to provide institution for protection for poverty-stricken people and listen to their voices and find out what are their needs and wants. This can lead to a path towards solutions to these gargantuan problems.