Terrible Situation Of Rapes And Harassment In Pakistan

(Qazi Baha Ur Rahman, )

Islam is complete code of life, molds every aspect of individual and collective lives in the framework of discipline and law.Allah Almighty has made it obligatory on every human being to enforce this law on himself, his family and his society, and he will be held accountable for this duty on the Day of Resurrection. Ignorance of this sense of responsibility isgreatest tragedy of the Muslims today.

The current humiliation of Muslims is due to their aversion to the Islamic way of life,because they adopted non-shariah system of life. They, ignoring the command of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), chose for themselves the same path of destruction that the Western world has already been following.The Prophet (peace be upon him) guided mankind not only to the salvation of the Hereafter but also to the secrets of living a successful and fulfilling life in this world.Unfortunately, the Muslims of todayforgot the lesson given by him and turned away from his instructions.The so-called Muslim rulers suspended the Islamic punishments imposed by Islam on the perpetrators, saying that these punishments were based on violations of basic human rights.In this way, Islamic countries, like the West, became hotbeds of social evils.

Pakistan is one of the leading Islamic states in the world, the only state in the current geographical division of the world that came into being on the basis of Islamic ideology. Despite being called an Islamic state, only Islam is oppressed and abandoned in this country. The rising crime rate and especially the growing graph of sexual brutality is very painful because our un-Islamic system is not capable of punishing the perpetrators severely.Before the nation can recover from the agony of an incident of rape, meanwhile, another tragedy shatters the moral wall of the country.Law enforcement agencies arrest a criminal at the risk of their lives but he is easily acquitted by taking advantage of the lack of evidence, non-compliance or suspicion. Even if the judge wants to set an example of terrible punishment, he cannot do so due to legal hurdles. Neither he can decide according to his conscience and emotions, nor can he apply the provisions of the Shari'ah to punish the culprit.The law within which the court has to sentence is the evil constitution of world imperialism, being in force in the subcontinent for one and a half hundred years.

The general opinion in our society is that our law cannot give rights to the oppressedand that to get your rights from the court you have to be humiliated in the courts all your life and a lot of money is wasted.Due to this ideology, 60% of rape cases go unreportedevery year, meaning that only 41% of cases are reported to the police.In the last six years, 22,000 cases of rape have been registered out of which 21,923accused have been acquitted due to lack of evidence or non-compliance while only 77 have been convicted. Isn't the acquittal of thousands of accused a question mark over the “law and order” of the state?Is it our police policy to arrest and interrogate such a large number of innocent people?If the police arrested the real culprits, how could they be easily acquitted by the court? DIGOmar Sheikh rightly said that the state had died on the same day when the politician, who merrily crushed a traffic warden under his car, was honorably acquitted. Although Omar Sheikh spoke bitter harshly, yet he spoke the truth. The guilty is neither our police nor the court but the real culprit is the Man-made law which is contrary to Islamic Shariah.In this flawed system of justice and punishment, the oppressed are punished first and then the guilty.However, there are many cases that do not reach a logical conclusion.Plaintiffs and witnesses get tired of fighting the case or die away, or the defendants put pressure on them to end the case and thus the blood of justice is shed.If Shariah had been imposed in Pakistan and the perpetrator would have been flogged and stoned in the city center, there would not have been only 22 crimeseven, instead of 22,000.

Neither a government nor any politician is sincere for enforcement of Shariah in Pakistan. As per reports of our law enforcement agencies, 95% politicians are corrupt, so why would a thief want a system in which theft is sever punishable?Why would an adulterer introduce the law of stoning and flogging for himself?Why would a corrupt person want to be held accountable?No political power in Pakistan will ever bother to enforce the Shariah. No politician is too true to dig his own grave. The families and the children of the ruling class are always under protection, so what do they care about the honor and dignity of the daughters of the nation?As long as the ruler does not live the life of a common man, he will never be able to do justice.It is an undeniable fact that no matter how hard you try, there will be no peace and order in Pakistan unless the Islamic system of Khilafah is established.
 

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