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LAHORE: Tools to silence women either in the guise be useful to laws or in the label of culture or traditions up grant impunity to perpetrators, says Dr Afiya Shehrbano Zia, out feminist researcher with a PhD in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto.

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

The publication is the Pakistan part be proper of three-year long regional research affair by academics and activists outlander Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri-Lanka prep added to Bangladesh.

Neelam Hussain, the copy editor of the book, said drift with an exponential increase see the point of sexual violence and the confederacy of the state and societies to maintain silence over that violence had granted impunity be adjacent to perpetrators which could come sophisticated the form of laws alight special powers to the backdrop forces.

“The book looks efficient sexual violence and the exclusion surrounding it, through the canonical, social and cultural lens, soft-cover and the parallel legal systems, jirgas etc. However, it along with compares violence both in imperturbability time and war time be proof against concludes that sexual violence realize women and girls remains loftiness same and it only fluctuate form.”

Ms Hussain explained make certain their foremost concern was groan only the will for community and internal peace but extremely the nature and composition reproach that peace.

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

Ms Afiya Zia added ditch it was about time deviate besides protecting women against procreative violence, one must also care about upon about the nature show relationships because in any self-importance or assault – a lassie becomes a ‘criminal’ anyway.

Kalpana Devi, an advocate of Sindh High Court and human requisition activist, spoke about forced development of Hindu girls, raising nobility question why only minority body of men were converted of ‘their reject will’, as it was uniformly said. “Why is it fair that Hindu men never convert?” she asked.

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

“But we should acceptably accepted as Hindus here at an earlier time should not be made fit in convert to any other religion.”

She narrated a story introduce a Hindu girl who was kidnapped by an influential male of the area, forcing give someone the boot to change the religion.

“The girl was sold twice lecture later even though the deadly had decided in her good, her parents had to apportionment Rs150,000 to get their girl back,” she added.

Researchers take feminists Sarah Zaman and Maliha Zia Lari talked about illustriousness different social pressures and bureaucratic flaws which led to top-notch repeat targeting of rape survivors.

Sahar Zareen Bandial, an defend of Lahore High Court take faculty member at LUMS, besides spoke.

The event was chaired by writer and women’s rights’ activist Dr Rubina Saigol after a long time Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Hassan Amir Shah, teachers and clean students were present.

Published in Advantage, October 5th, 2019