current state of Pashtun women in Pashtun society

[Badlun]

Dear we have no problem in educating our woman but the problem is our secular education system and the whole system. The day you Islamize our education and bring an Islamic political, social, economic system in the country, I don't think a single Pashtun man won't send his daughter or sister to the school or university.

This day has never come in the last 1433 years and will never come in the coming 1400 years. Islam as a religion (faith, worship, morality)was always a success but never as a complete code of life because its simply a religion not a complete system.

[Badlun]

The status of Pashtun woman in this modern era is challenge to the humanity as a whole and the human rights groups specially. Status of Pashtun women is worse then that of a dog. Because a dog has liberty to move around but a Pashtun woman has to pass her whole house in the prison of the four walls of her house, even a dog has fundamental freedom of movement but a Pashtun woman has none!

I practically see that 95% of Pashtun women in Pakistan and Afghanistan pass their whole life within the limits of their houses, the only exceptions is that when they go to hospitals or relatives homes, many times fully covered and accompanied by a male guardian. Is it a life worthy to lead? Why about 30 millions Pashtun women are socially imprisoned.

There are many other rights like inheritance which must be given to Pashtun women. That with modern education the things are changing but I think once the Pashtun women have the basic right of free movement then they can go to universities and colleges and can participate in social events freely not necessarily under the command of their male Guardians .We must treat Pashtun women as human beings equal to men not a dependent on their men whether husbands, fathers, brothers or sons.

Let’s start a movement to liberate the 30 million Pashtun women who are prisoners in their own homes. They are born within the 4 walls and die within the 4 walls of their houses. They are sentenced with life time imprisonment. How can we liberate Pashtun women from this life time imprisonment? Let’s think and act in the right direction.

For ameliorating the status of Pashtun woman we have to take start from the scratch, from zero. We have to do some thing to take out Pashtun woman from the quagmire they have been fallen by so called Pashtun traditions, Pashtun society, Pashtun chauvinist men and false ideas and wrongly interpreted injunctions of religion and dictates of mullahs.

Some friends think that Pashtuns as a whole, both men and women are downtrodden so talking only of women is not justified.

I agree that Pashtuns as a nation, as a race, both men and women are suffering. We don’t have a single Nobel Prize holder, a single world level scientist or technologist, or philosopher or scholar etc. Yes we have suicide bombers, terrorists, Taliban, dacoits, robbers, all negative, nothing positive.

But here the point is even the worse status of women, who don’t have the basic right of movement and expression. We have to break their chains; men at least have these rights. They are economically better than women. Women totally depend on their men partners socially and economically. Situation of Pashtun women is many times worse than Pashtun men.

[gulkhan320]

My dears you are talking of women rights, there are no rights for men in our society. Educated people will have to rise to the occasion and learn for themselves what religion is about. It is not very difficult. There is no need of any mullah or priest to be sitting in the mosque and giving sermons, like Christians do. Every one in a muslim society has to be working, in the Aya for Jumma prayers Allah says to everyone to disperse in search of fazl Allah has put in place. This order is for the moulvi as well. Islam is being misused by those who do not know it. Many of our social evils are because of the reason that we do not want to know what religion wants us to do and not to do. We are being led by under educated people. I request to the educated lot to study deen themselves, a lot of books are available, translation of the holy Quran is available in all languages, please read it urself and interpret it urself. May Allah guide us to the right path.