context: it's a unicef ad I got about a pediatrician talking about how important it is for a child to have a routine, and saw THIS
I don't know whether to laugh or be disgusted what is this man 😭
(made this post for another subreddit, but it got deleted lmao)
When I was a teenager, I would constantly bring up the statistics of violence upon women in this country to bring more awareness in hopes of change, or at least more support whenever a misogynistic relative wanted to yap about how "women have all their rights and freedom in Pakistan." I would talk about experiences of being cooped up in the house - being prevented to go outside with friends or to just simply WALK because the dangers were numerous. Their reply? Don't ask, nothing changed.
As an adult, now I look back and realise that was a waste of time because these cases are FINALLY getting media attention by popping up every single day, and there's still no change is being done besides a parliamentarian submitting a bill to increase punishment to a death penalty for perpetrators of acid attacks (and we don't even know if it will be approved)
There's so many ways to create change, like reforms in the education system by making sociology a required subject and introducing sex education in schools, literature to include Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Parveen Shakir, Kishwar Naheed, and biographies of influential Pakistani women like Fatima Bhutto and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan made mandatory to read about; and unregulated madarsas to be reformed to prevent the risk of sectarianism and extremist rhetoric.
For the love of god, we need change. SA upon women and children increase everyday - to the point children have started doing it to other children, female enrollment within universities has started decreasing, and our spot on the Gender Index Gap is at 148 out of 148 countries with 56.7% gender parity - this is a CONCERN that cannot be ignored anymore.
Genuinely concerned of their mental state.
I wouldn't like to use Facebook, but looking at all of this makes me realise why there's such a deep hatred against women in our country — there's so many groups that encourage misogynistic behaviour, and this is just one of the thousands.
This certainly goes beyond being a creep, but the cruelty of such an act needs to be brought to attention.
For context, this happened in Quetta's Civil Hospital. The private lift operator named Humayun Shah attacked a doctor with acid inside of the hospital. It's been reported that 30% of her body has been burnt, alongside losing an eye.
The person in the blue coat helped her and got minor injuries.
This raises the question, why is acid not banned in Pakistan?
Punjab has the highest number of acid attacks, most that go unreported - and yet, people like Falak Shabir would rather speak about wantin short dresses banned instead of a lethal substance used against women in Punjab.
Can we talk about this government's obsession with palm trees? They're constantly cutting down trees that suit our climate, providing shade for people and refuge for our native bird species - and then proceed to replace them with the palm trees for "beautification" just to copy Dubai's aesthetic.
Imagine our city if instead of cutting trees that have stood tall for years, they increased green spaces and planted trees such as neem, fruit trees, moringa, and gulmohar/jacaranda - and plants such as bougainvillea, oleander, aloe vera, tamarisk, and desert cotton for areas not fit for trees
Our temperatures in the summer keep increasing every year, and yet these people love to take away the little shade people get from the trees grown years ago instead of increasing it for the future 🙁