Pakistan Amid Chaos.

Pakistan has currently found itself in the middle of political and economic chaos amid an equally disturbing social dilemma. Every other day, videos circulate spreading outrage. The content of these short clips is nothing more than disturbing abuses, assaults, humiliations, tortures, rapes and brutal killings. Every single man, woman and child is potentially insecure but the vulnerable ratio of women outnumbers the other two significantly.

It feels like women's rights are only penned down in the supreme constitution solely. The masses are completely unaware of the due expectations and rights of the country's women population. This notion apparently seems to be homogeneous in every class of Pakistan. As we observed how Noor Mukaddam was brutally slaughtered by an American-Pakistani Psychiatrist Zahir Jaffer. The analogous or more of the deserved punishment still seems to be a pendulum.

The recent example of a Danish from Faisalabad who tortured and humiliated a medical student Khadija just because she refused to marry him. Similarly, we come across many such cases where children are raped, men are tortured, and women are forced to marry or murdered for the sake of masculine honour. The situation is turning worse every other day, but the representatives are busy in their tug of war to rule and ecstatic in celebrating the champagne of power. As we zoom out the lens, the institutions lookout to be stuck in the execution of constitutional and governing policies. The impeachment of authority is the new norm in Pakistan.

On the contrary, hundreds of people have died in the recent monsoon. As we reach...

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