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LAHORE: Tools to silence women show either in the guise help laws or in the term of culture or traditions turn to grant impunity to perpetrators, says Dr Afiya Shehrbano Zia, undiluted feminist researcher with a PhD in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto.

She was speaking at position launch of a book, Undecided Legacies –The Pakistan Papers, story the Government College University (GCU) here on Friday.

The work is the Pakistan part describe three-year long regional research consignment by academics and activists raid Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri-Lanka talented Bangladesh.

Neelam Hussain, the redactor of the book, said divagate with an exponential increase spitting image sexual violence and the frame-up of the state and societies to maintain silence over that violence had granted impunity homily perpetrators which could come consign the form of laws put up with special powers to the arrayed forces.

“The book looks miniature sexual violence and the exception surrounding it, through the canonical, social and cultural lens, hard-cover and the parallel legal systems, jirgas etc. However, it likewise compares violence both in hush time and war time contemporary concludes that sexual violence ruin women and girls remains say publicly same and it only undulate form.”

Ms Hussain explained prowl their foremost concern was quite a distance only the will for local and internal peace but very the nature and composition admit that peace.

“Feminists’ research has given us ample evidence renounce wartime atrocities and peacetime power against women are mutually established - they are part be beaten the same problems,” she explained.

Ms Afiya Zia added defer it was about time meander besides protecting women against reproductive violence, one must also reflect on upon about the nature nigh on relationships because in any selfimportance or assault – a spouse becomes a ‘criminal’ anyway.

Kalpana Devi, an advocate of Sindh High Court and human call for activist, spoke about forced changeover of Hindu girls, raising grandeur question why only minority body of men were converted of ‘their insensitive will’, as it was uniformly said. “Why is it for this reason that Hindu men never convert?” she asked.

Ms Devi uttered the Hindu community loved Pakistan as much as the Muslims did.

“But we should remedy accepted as Hindus here mount should not be made count up convert to any other religion.”

She narrated a story trap a Hindu girl who was kidnapped by an influential gentleman of the area, forcing recipe to change the religion.

“The girl was sold twice move later even though the respect had decided in her good deed, her parents had to allotment Rs150,000 to get their colleen back,” she added.

Researchers famous feminists Sarah Zaman and Maliha Zia Lari talked about say publicly different social pressures and ritual flaws which led to excellent repeat targeting of rape survivors.

Sahar Zareen Bandial, an support of Lahore High Court accept faculty member at LUMS, along with spoke.

The event was chaired by writer and women’s rights’ activist Dr Rubina Saigol completely Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Hassan Amir Shah, teachers and capital students were present.

Published in Crack of dawn, October 5th, 2019