The experts of several professions assaulted systemic injustice in Pakistan on Sunday, emphasizing the need for legal and civil institutions to be supported and have a holistic approach.
The observations occurred during a plenary session of the Imagining Future Conference, which took place at Habib University of Karachi from August 1 to 4, where experts and interested parties on the issues discussed human rights and civil freedoms in Pakistan.
As the session, full of participants of all ages, began exploring the legal panorama of Pakistan, the president of the National Human Rights Commission (NCHR), Rabiya Javeri, stressed: “Knowledge is capital.”
However, he emphasized, people must be aware of their rights, but the “system is in poor condition.”
Responding to a audience consultation on whether knowledge really guaranteed protection if women as former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Noor Mukadam could be killed, Javeri said: “Empowerment through education or skills must be integrated into the systems of systems […] Educational, financial and judicial systems have to support it. “
Only 41 percent of violated women report it, and even of them, they go back due to social pressure, said the president of NChr. Observing the low conviction rate in rape cases (0.5pc according to a recent report), he said: “Who will they go to? HELNA Kharab Hai System, Holnaak Hai (The system itself is so broken and horrible) “.
“The system has to respond,” Javeri emphasized, pointing out the need for human rights impact assessments and systematic and gender planning in budgets.
She stressed that this aspect should be integrated into “service providers”, which include lawyers, courts, police and teachers, among others.
“Human rights are the rights given by God. No one can take them.”
Javeri detailed certain cases that he had found during his role in NCHR, including one in which a woman had managed to get her daughter, a master’s student of about 30 years, has kidnapped and sent to a rehabilitation center.
The mother’s reason to do it, as stated by Javeri, sent chills for the thorns of the audience: the daughter did not want to marry, she had cats as pets (as if that were in some relevant way), and a call medical called her “depressed.”
The case, said Javeri, said how badly equipped and the people involved in the treatment of such situations are. There is a lack of regulation of mental health cases, with any other person presenting themselves as psychologists, and anyone can qualify someone A “Paagal” (angry).
Other speakers in the panel were the police service of the Superintendent of Pakistan (SP) Baig; Treasurer of the Karachi Law Association Hasebullah Panhwar; Rights and Academic Activist Abira Ashfaq; and Air Commodore (retired) Shabbir Ahmed Khan, founder of the Rehid Memorial Welfare Organization. The session was moderated by Rana Kaiser Ishaque of the United Nations Development Program in Pakistan.
Sp Baig, who was among the first to respond to the murderer of Noor Mukadam, Zahir Jaffer of the crime scene, said the case was still being discussed four years later “because it was educated”, compared to other “worst cases” he had seen while serving in Punjab.
While Baig believed that knowledge empowers people, he also pointed out that politicians and policy formulators did not completely understand social equity.
“If the culture is repressive, it will be reflected in its public service systems, such as police,” he said, explaining that approaching a police station was linked to the dignity of a woman in Pakistan.
“It’s how the police and law enforcement agencies have been portrayed over time. [But] There are also women on the other side, ”he told women who attended the session and suggested that people should be taught how to inform the police.
The police officer caught attention to a less known term, gender violence (TFGBV) of technological facilitation, which not only means violence made by technology, but also women killed even by using social media platforms.
An image of a girl that most people who follow the news have appeared in the minds of the audience; The recent murder of healthy Yousaf that rightly ignited the fury among women throughout the country.
Ashfaq, a human rights activist and associated professor at Habib University, pointed to the 26th amendment, pointing out that he had taken the power of Swp SUOU that had allowed judges to take note of public problems.
He also underlined the lack of legal education: “We do not know how the courts, bureaucracy and parliamentary systems work. These are basic things. We have not left slogans to look at economic justice, climate justice.”
“You have delayed protection laws. We think about taxing property instead of thinking that housing is a right,” Ashfaq said. Similarly, he asked: “Where is the right to food?”
Meanwhile, Panhwar, ready with his arguments, listed in a comprehensive way but succinctly the problems that afflict the Judicial System of Pakistan.
A serious matter, but an adequate laugh of the audience when the moderator joked “Pakistan is also a hard state”, since Panhwar described the category of local codes as “hard laws.”
The lawyer pointed out that articles 8 to 28 of the Constitution guaranteed several rights, such as freedom of expression and movement, and that Pakistan was a signatory to several international conventions, but “we do not see any type of implementation here.”
Without hesitation, Panhwar shouted to the “ruling parties” for bringing the amendment 26 that now gave them more votes to decide who is a judge in the higher courts.
The retired Comodoro Air, Ahmed, offered some words of wisdom, which one would like to reveal to the speakers of public service institutions throughout the country.
The creation of Pakistan has given us a complete independence, he said, but “we have denied and killed over time through our own actions and interest.”
He emphasized: “If we are addressing a problem, then we must address it in an integral way.”
The retired officer also offered us, and Pakistan, we hope: “All negative, all dark. But there is a silver lining; we are talking about that.”
