Not all people are into mirch masala; not everyone is paid like Dr Shahid Masood. Everyday women in Pakistan move by public transport where they are being groped but they remain silent because of cultural reasons. No one reports such assaults. But if you ask ladies who go to work or schools on buses and vans they might tell you what happens to them. The problem is many sick men have poor ugly wives, and they like to touch others’ wives and daughters who are vulnerable on a public place.
In Karachi’s Clifton beach, hundreds of Pashtoons flocked on Eid where many of them misbehaved with local women who went there for outing. Since these Pashtoon workers came to Karachi from NWFP and tribal areas leaving their wives and whoever, they were desperate to grab a woman. After many compalints, Sindh Rangers started vigilance there and arrested such losers and made them ‘murgha’ on the spot.
Pashtoons especially and other ethnic groups who come to Karachi for work often misbehave with women on public transport. Rarely a woman is bold enough to highlight and gets the culprit caught and beaten up by fellow passengers. It’s a mindset which will not change.
When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, Pashtoons like always and others abducted and raped Karachi women on mass scale. Such reports were silenced on the media because an evil dictator Musharraf was in power.