Pakistan - News and Discussion 6

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<b>SSridhar Ji :</b>

It is sad that we Indians in General and members of various Indian Fora in Particular are unaware of the Accommodative Capacity and Capabilities of Pakistanis. I have been told by Proud Pakistanis that accommodating the bulb upright is a normal affair. The real Champion Pakistanis accommodate the bulb lengthwise i.e. across-sideways.

This is attributed to the sexual abuse of Pakistani Children and it is a known fact that of the 25% of Pakistani Children abused Sexually the greater part are boys.

Thus it is fair to assume that at least 40% of Pakistani Males have been sexually abused in their Boyhood. Of course the major part of such incidents are unreported.

The following Article from the Daily Times is most informative :

<b>ONE IN FOUR PAKISTANI CHILDREN SEXUALLY ABUSED : STUDY </b>

<b>KARACHI: The one thing Pakistan has in common with the West is an appalling child sex abuse, Dr Zeenat Essani, director of the National Institute of Child Health said at a seminar marking Universal Children’s Day on Monday.

“We should accept that we have a big problem,” he told the seminar at Aga Khan University Hospital. The long-tern effects of child abuse include fear, anxiety, depression, inappropriate sexual behaviour, poor self-esteem, and difficulty with close relationships, she said.

Among victims of sexual abuse, the inability to trust others is pronounced, contributing to secrecy and non-disclosure, she said. Victims often failed to report the crime due to fear, she added.

Dr Ghaffar Billo, head of paediatrics at Aga Khan said people failed to realise how rampant child abuse was in Pakistan.</b>

He said the erroneous belief that unless children were beaten, they don’t learn, was widespread in religious circles.

Dr Aisha Mehnaz, associate professor at Karachi’s Dow Medical College and president of the Pakistan Paediatrics Association said the exact magnitude of child sexual abuse was unknown, but unofficial estimates put incidences of abuse in Pakistan at 15-25 per cent of the population, an estimate based on newspaper reports, police records, reports of NGOs and healthcare providers, she said.

<b>She said the extent of child sexual abuse, according to newspaper reports between 1997-99 was: CSA/murder 297, including 111 girls and 186 boys; gang rape 680 including 449 girls and 231 boys; rape 528, including 528 girls; sodomy 272; molestation 279 including 185 girls and 94 boys; abduction for sex 253, including 222 girls and 31 boys. Totally, 2304 incidence of CSA occurred during this period. There were 1495 girl victims and 314 boys’ victims, she said.

She said according to data compiled by chief chemical examiners, the age group of victims varied between 12-18 years during January-June 1999. But the age group of victims between 1997-99 was 5-18 years.

She said the abusers fell into various categories : acquaintances 74.1 percent (3,009 cases); relatives 2.1 percent (87); incest 1.7 percent (70); teacher 1.1 percent (46); religious teacher 1.4 percent (57); police 2.2 percent (90); and strangers 17.2 percent (6,990. There were 4,058 cases of CSA during this period, she said.</b>

She said a multidisciplinary approach was needed to combat this crime and bolster public awareness of the crime. She said the media should address the menace. <b>Parents and teachers should be educated on the issue.</b>

Thus one can opine that may be the Pakistani Leadership i.e. Bureaucratic, Feudal, Military, Political and Religious, suffering from poor self-esteem, and difficulty with close relationships as well as the inability to trust others is pronounced due to the fact that they have been horrendously sexually abused during their childhood and therefore the belief of the Tight and Narrow parts attributed to the Pakistanis is a flight of fancy.

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