Jot It Down By Aina

I have not posted anything for quite some time now, and I don't know if this absence will continue. In what I consider as my final post on this blog, I wish to address the discriminating quota system in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. Credits: Jot It Down By Aina With its democratic rectification in 1973, the quota system was enforced for 25 years, creating an irrefutable divide between the rural and urban areas of the Sindh Province. Though the quota system aims to regulate equal representation in various regions of the province, it has polarized the territories instead. This problem emerges in Sindh only, as other provinces are not divided into urban and rural centers . In the Sindh Province, quota system has destroyed competition and fairness in selection and slaughters merit, producing corrupt and ineffective offices. In a failed attempt to represent all, the quota system has worsened the ethnic divide, and refuses admittance of capable youngsters to government offices, especia

Quratulain, Saima, and Noor are only three names highlighted in front of our eyes that fell victim to the femicide that goes on in Pakistani society.  I wonder how many people around the abusers and murderers were aware of their barbarous nature and actions but refused to report it or call them out. Here is a timeline that shows the abuse cases from the start of July (Keep in mind that these are the  very few  highlighted ones): I would like to quote Sajeer Shaikh here, "It terrifies me that every woman (myself included) is one man's "bad day" or "anger let loose" away from becoming a hashtag - if that." All these innocent women have been butchered, tortured, abused, and beaten, to death.  We can all have our hashtags and keep waiting for justice, but the real change needs to come from the men within our society. And for the record, it is not 'Western Agenda.' We have every right to speak for ourselves and fight for our basic human rights in t

Earlier this week, a video surfaced of two women degrading the manager of their high-class café Cannoli. The two women, named Uzma and Diya, are seen demeaning their manager of nine years, Awais, who is not fluent in the English language. Credit: @/KinzaDilshad on Twitter The video starts with the café owners stating they are bored and then calling their manager to interview him. Diya - one of the owners, introduces him by letting everyone know that he is one of the oldest employees at Cannoli.  The ladies criticize Awais's eloquence in the English language and embark on the number of courses he has taken over the years to learn English. Awais, on the other hand, stands quiet at the other side of the camera.  Being fluent in the English language is not something to flaunt to make others around you feel belittled. If its education and high-class status that you boast, and it cannot teach you how to treat people, it is useless to acquire such pitiful possessions. Speaking English doe

Credits: Jot It Down By Aina On the night of Wednesday, 9th September 2020 on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway, took place a horrific gang-rape of a woman in front of her children. The country boiled with anger as the details of the gang-rape emerged the news on Thursday.  The victim was accompanied by her three children when their car stalled in the Gujjarpura neighborhood, where Motorway Police is not deployed, as it ran out of fuel. She called her relative and sent him her location on the motorway. When the relative managed to reach the motorway, he saw her terror-stricken and bloodstains on her clothes. He saw her vehicle windowpanes had also been broke. The two armed men attacked her; one struck the car with clubs, and the other held them hostage at gunpoint, the woman reported to the police. The attackers took the woman and her children to a forested area nearby and gang-raped her. The woman was later robbed of Rs100,000 cash, gold jewelry pieces, a bracelet, her car registration card