Eve teasing!!!!

By Huda Ayaz

We are being taught since our childhood, the role and respect a woman possesses in a society. Even our media emphasis largely upon woman’s rights and the tragedies she endures in this contemporary world through different soups and reality shows.

But, with all these increment of awareness programs and the bills that are passing to promulgate women’s right, we are still the victims of ignorance. Women are being humiliated mentally, physically and psychologically and the male chauvinism remains constant. They are tortured in public places, in streets, in public transport, and even in their families. Despairing as it is, women are no longer safe in their education campuses as well.

hen we join Karachi University, we were supposed to feel free to go any where within the premises of our varsity, as if it’s our second home. But there are few unfortunate events and notorious people who have made us girls not to feel protected anymore.

There are girls who are being teased with a worst possible ways to threaten their dignities.

A friend of my friend was a victim, who was molested by her department’s chairperson. When I questioned what had happened latter, she said the girl left varsity and the student adviser who supported the girl was rusticated, thus nobody dares to reopen that issue again.

My cousin’s friend was harassed by rangers on her way to the department near gymnasium, because she was alone on Saturday, and her department does not give Saturday’s off. Another girl was mentally harassed with abusive remarks by few boys, and the guards standing their laughed on her, instead of protecting her.

The point is why these hideous people don’t get punished even though we have strong political wings in our varsity?? It’s somewhat unfeasible to eliminate these harassments, but they can be put under control.