It will be so much fun if a woman drag a naked man from one corner to another.
Even NYTimes will print that news i tell yah
Now the witness are not coming forth apparently.
Lady councillor’s naked parade, drama or fact, everyone awaits
Thursday December 19, 2002 (1049 PST)
SIALKOT, December 19 (Online): Clash of claims goes on in the naked parade drama of the Sadra Bara village where victim’s sticks to her allegations which the witnesses deny.
As the story goes, police have arrested Mohammad Alam, his two sons, and another person for beating and tearing off a local councillor Naseem Akhtar’s clothes, dragging her through the village.
Alam admits to taking offence to Akhtar’s challenge of contributing money for a graveyard, but denies she was humiliated.
Akhtar says she was beaten for two hours and dragged through the streets of the village as townsfolk looked on from streets and nearby rooftops. She said the men were armed with sticks and nobody dared rescue her.
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Police and landlords are just two of the many gods in Pakistan. This should be officially recognized.
well right now its seems like this lady's story may be false. dunno, lets see what the investigation shows.
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*Originally posted by OldLahori: *
PT, Landlord of a building or an apartment complex here in USA has a totally different connotation than a zamindar, or a wadera (how would you translate all that means to a pakistani mazdur or a hare or even a landless kissan). You are absolutely right this has existed long before the birth of Pakistan. This also exits with full force in many rural parts of India, and in Nepal. The situation as I have been told is that the local police is usually on the take from the local "Land lord", and will normally not register a case against him or his family. Think about it, the Governer had to issue the registeration of the case in this case all the way from Lahore and the local police would not even register the complaint. This is a curse that Pakistan has been living with and unfortunately no Govt. has tackled it sincerely. This system was put into place by the Moghuls and then modified by the british to serve them. I wish there was magic wand that one could wave and fix the whole stupid mess. Only last week there was news in nation that a major exporter in Sialkot had to pay 1 crore rupees as ransom to get free. That news discussed about how people in Sialkot export community have no faith in Police, and suspect that the police is complicitly involved in kidnappings anyway. I have heard of similar cases reported in Indian newspapers.
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Let me get into the bottom line:
No one can't charge Landlords. They act like Bullies and use people working under for them as animals. Police can't arrest because their pockets get warm each week.
pt mere words can get you life sentance but somehow physical
violnece is condoned.
Blasphemer’ fined, sentenced to life term
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_20-12-2002_pg1_6