I wonder why he and, moreover, his entrenched gang of thugs, seem unmoved by their prophet Muhammad’s injunction in the Quran that “cursed are those men that wear women’s clothing and those women that wear men’s clothing”. If they truly adhere to their insipid religiosity, surely they are duty-bound to stone Aziz to death, or some such.

My advice for you keep yourself always as positive, I am not saying that you are totally negative, I also agreed with you on some of things such as women held for extended lenghts and being treated bad so forth…

Its very easy to say or point finger on Mosque “Allahs House” quoting your words

“I am glad not all men and women are religious. Otherwise, whole of Islamabad would have turned into a grand vigilante station, aka Lal Masjid, buring witches at the stake.

you can easily quote Mark Twain !

But I tell you that Mr. Jayjay please do not point Lal Masjid or any other Mosque because it can easily offend any muslim.

Now PEace

I am glad not all men and women are religious. Otherwise, whole of Islamabad would have turned into a grand vigilante station, aka Lal Masjid, buring witches at the stake.

lets not be bookish about what is happening and start to realize the bitter facts looming around our country. Its very easy to say not to take the law into our hands, a totally different opinion when someone has been a victim of that limping law. Following are some reported examples to open up your eyes:

Short of conviction, women have also been held for extended lengths of time on charges of zina when they allege rape (Asia Watch 1992, 41-60). For example, in July, 1992, Shamim, a twenty-one-year-old mother of two charged that she was kidnaped and raped by three men in Karachi. When a rape complaint was lodged against the perpetrators, the police instead arrested Shamim, and charged her with zina when her family could not post the fee set for her release. The police held her in custody for six days, during which she reports that she was repeatedly raped by two police officers and a third unnamed person (Amnesty International 1993, 11-12). There have been numerous reports of such custodial rapes in Pakistan.6

Police action and inaction in rape cases in Pakistan have in fact been widely reported as an instrumental element to the injustice. There is evidence that police have deliberately failed to file charges against men accused of rape, often using the threat of converting the rape charge into a zina prosecution against the female complainant to discourage women from reporting.7 And when the perpetrator is a police officer himself, the chances of pursuing a case against him are nearly nonexistent. Shahida Parveen faced this very situation when she reported that in July, 1994, two police officers broke into her house and locked her children in a room while they raped her at gunpoint. A medical examination confirmed that she was raped by more than one person, but the police refused to register her complaint (Amnesty International 1995, 14).

Political rivals have further exploited women by using rape as a weapon against each other. In November, 1992, Khursheed Begum, the wife of an arrested member of the Pakistan People’s Party was abducted on her way home from attending her husband’s court hearing. She states that she was blindfolded, driven to a police station, and repeatedly raped there by police officers, who asserted political motives for the attack (Amnesty International 1992, 207; Scroggins, 1992, A10; Rashid 1991, 14.). Later the same month, forty-year-old Veena Hyat, of one of Pakistan’s elite families and daughter of a prominent politician, stated that she was gang raped for twelve hours in every room of her house by five armed men. Despite her father taking the unusual social risk of publicly reporting the attack, a judicial investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to convict the alleged perpetrators (Zia 1994, 55-57; Economist 1991, 43; Rashid 1991, 14; Robinson 1992, 11).

So next time you pass comments on the Law of this country, try putting yourself into the shoe of those who got dented by the so called LAW!