The New Nation - Internet Edition

According to newspaper reports, sexual abuse in Pakistan has reached an alarming statge. About 80 percent of the workingwomen have alleged of sexual harassment by the male persons.

Though the remainders 20 percent have not made any such allegation, still it cannot be said that they have never been dishonoured, the report claims.

It gathers from various agencies' reports that the women of Pakistan are in the very awful state though Pakistan is an Islamic republic according to the constitution.

It is a country where if a girl is raped by a youth of her locality, the brother of the victim rapes the innocent sister of the rapist in front of others in revenge.

Whereas we learn in terms of verse No.53/38 that "No laden soul shall bear another's load." Again, "And whoso commits a crime, then throws the blame thereof upon the innocent, has burdened himself with falsehood and fragrant crime,"-4/112.

But why do the males of Pakistan venture to act against the lessons of Islam is a question of my daughter? I said that the feudal lords and the capitalists who treat women as instrument of amusement only and never respect them have been ruling Pakistan for years.

They themselves neither learn from the Quran nor inspire the people to do so in order to maintain suzerainty. Every government so far installed in power since 1947 was/is their puppet.

Ameer Hamzah

Dhaka

A Bengali daily published from R.K.Mission Road reported on Wednesday that some NGOs have not stopped collection of loan installment from the borrowers who lost everything in the 11/15 hurricane, thereby, creating a government within the government. Whereas we learn from verse No. 2/286 that He does not command anybody to work beyond his/her capacity. Possible the interim government (IG) faces hardest challenge from a section of NGOs backed by foreign powers. Nawab Sirajuddowlahp paid a severe price for permitting the British East India Company to trade in Bengal. We think that the IG should take lessons from history before it is too late.

William

Banani, Dhaka