Obedience in Pakistan

The interview I conducted was with a Pakistani exchange student name "Durrah." Durrah told me her name means "Pearl." Durrah told me strict obedience in Pakistan can be harmful because it can make a girl very unhappy. Pearl explained to me that Pakistani girls have no say in any matter that American girls do. She told me her father had the right to permit her education or not and to even say "who I would marry." Durrah was able to get an education due to her mother's support, but she told me her mother was uneducated because she remained totally submissive to her father and her father before him. Her father did not believe in education for women.

Women in Pakistani society are als

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us with 'endurance'. She is simply forced to accept certain bare facts of life once she grows up to be a woman. Be it on streets, or for that matter in restaurants, a woman is first and foremost required to be alert. It is best to try and not notice, women are told. According to Hina Jilani, Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, "the right to life of women in Pakistan is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions." In addition to that, women in Pakistan face all kinds of gross violence and abuse at the hands of the male perpetuators, family members and state agents. Multiple forms of violence include rape; domestic abuse as spousal murder, mutilation, burning and disfiguring faces by acid, beatings; ritual honour-killings and custodial abuse and torture. According to a report by Amnesty International released on June 15, 2000, several hundred women and girls die each year in so-called 'honour-killings' in Pakistan, in a backdrop to government inaction. She is killed like a bird in family feuds to create evidence of "illicit" connections and cover them under the garb of "grave and sudden provocation" to escape severe punishment. The practice of Summary-killing of a woman suspected of an illicit liaison, k
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