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A unfair result
- Updated: January 23, 2017
PPP lawmaker presents chaddar to PML-F’s Nusrat Sehar Abbasi to apologize over his insulting remarks. PHOTO: ONLINE
The reparation done by a Pakistan People’s Party MPA Imdad Pitafi for his abuse of Nusrat Seher Abbasi smacked of derisive hypocrisy. There was no clarity of frankness in a reparation for his abuse of Ms Abbasi in a Sindh Chamber final week as a smile on his face suggested while he draped an ajrak over her shoulders observant that she was a sister to him. It was a arrangement of fakery that merely underscored a sexism and misogyny that ran like a toxic capillary via this brief though contemptible affair. For her partial Ms Abbasi on Monday 23rd Jan pronounced that she ‘forgave’ Mr Pitafi. She had formerly threatened self-immolation, and been graphic holding a bottle of petrol by approach of hazard if she did not accept an apology. There are suggestions that a organisation of (male) elders brokered this sham maybe during a insistence of a presumably broke PPP peak management. Whilst a PPP carries a shortcoming for this latest arrangement of masculine self-centredness and misogyny they are only a many new to fly a dwindle of disrepute.
To all intents and functions Mr Pitafi has got off scot-free regulating a fig root of ‘tradition’ in a display of a ajrak as a car for his escape. The PPP care in a form of Bilawal Bhutto was delayed to conflict and has itself taken no approach movement opposite a loyalist MPA, in itself a loyal thoughtfulness of a low status, indeed contempt, with that women in politics are noticed and treated by what is presumably a many magnanimous and cordial of a domestic parties nationally.
Women in politics are possibly there as a substitute for other masculine members of their family, or are noticed as untimely add-ons imposed by domestic exactness and a enterprise to prove unfamiliar observers. Women are for a many partial nowhere acquire in a assemblies any some-more than they are in other areas of open life. A little series of women quarrel their approach to a tip of a store and they are accorded a artificial ‘respect’ as has been Ms Abbasi. Shabby, gentlemen, really unfair indeed.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 24th, 2017.
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