پروڈکشن ہاؤس کے نام پر جنسی استحصال
یہ ناول نگار کا مشاہدہ ،تخلیق اور تحقیق ہے جو انھیں دوسروں سے نمایا ں کرتی ہے۔وہ بے باکی سے اپنامدعا بیان کرتے ہیں۔ناول نگار نے ظفر عالم کا ذکر کیا ہے کہانی میں جو کہ پروڈکشن ہاؤس چلاتے ہیں اور ان کی بیگم وہاں پہ ٹیچر ہیں۔وہ لڑکیوں کو پروڈکشن کے کام سکھاتی ہیں۔ضامن کی جب ان سے ملاقات ہوئی تو وہ اسی کشمکش میں تھا کہ وہ ضامن سے کیوں ملنا چاہتے ہیں۔پہلے ہی اس کے دل ودماغ میں ذیشان اور شیزہ کے حوالے سے سوالات کے انبار تھے۔ضامن نے ظفر عالم سے ملاقات کے بعد اس کے نتائج بھی کچھ یوں نکالے:
’’مجھے یہ شخص پورے سسٹم کا مرکزی کردارمعلوم ہورہا تھااور اس کی بیوی جسے وہ ٹیچر بتارہاتھا۔میں اچھی طرح جانتا تھا یہ شوبز ڈیزاننگ انڈسٹری دوسرے لفظوں میں سیکس انڈسٹری ہوتی ہے‘‘ (25)
یہ ایک معمہ تھا۔ضامن کیلئے وہ الجھتا جارہا تھا۔ناول نگار کی تحریر شعور زیست کے ساتھ ساتھ شعار زیست بھی دیتی ہے جو قاری میں ترفع پیدا کرنے کا موجب بنتی ہے۔بہر حال قاری کے دل ودماغ کو شعور تب ملنا شروع ہوا جب ضامن، ذیشا ن اور شیزہ دونوں کے ساتھ ایک فلیٹ پر رہنے آگیا۔وہ ایک عجیب قسم کا فلیٹ تھاکبھی دوست آتے، بہت چہل ہوتی ،کبھی بہت خاموشی ،کبھی رقص کی محفل ،کبھی انتہائی بیزاری محسوس ہوتی تھی اور سب سے بڑھ کر ضامن جو شیزہ کی محبت میں گرفتار ہو کر فیصلہ نہیں کر پارہا تھاکہ ہو کیا رہا ہے۔
ناول نگار نے بے پردگی کی ایک ایسی فضا قائم کی ہے جو قاری کو سوچوں میں گم چھوڑ دیتی ہے۔وہ سوچتا رہتا ہے کہ کیا اخلاقیات...
The present study was conducted to probe the role of religion in mate selection among educated females of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Data for the study was collected through a pre-tested questionnaire from 278 working women from three public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa i.e. The University of Agriculture, University of Peshawar and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar. Simple random method was applied to pick the samples from the study area whereas chi-square statistics was applied to get the major findings. Results reveal a contradictory type of situation as on the one hand, religion particularly the rituals were strictly followed during marriage but on the other hand, the mate selection rights of women were ignored mainly. This is practiced despite of the fact that Islam has given right/liberty in mate selection to both men and women. Female respondents attributed it to lack of Islamic knowledge on part of family members or they do it to get more say and power through following common values and culture. Religious leaders do not lay much stress on the rights given by Islam to females in mate selection in their religious sermons. The issue according to respondents was not discussed either. Females on their part, though found interested in mates from their own sect or religious groups preferred liberal males over conservative ones because believing them to be stern and inflexible. The study recommends that an awareness campaign through mass media which may include religious leaders, civil society and political parties needs to be launched in order to raise awareness among both the educated and uneducated females along with their parents regarding mate selection, the nature and impact of religious misinterpretations, and current wave of western values, materialistic outlook and idealism that affects the selected females perception about mate selection.
Women’s health status is affected by complex biological, social and cultural factors, which are interrelated and only can be addressed in a comprehensive manner. Reproductive health is determined not only by the quality and availability of health care, but also by socio-economic development levels, lifestyles and women’s position in society. Women health is compromised not by lack of medical knowledge, but by infringement on women’s human rights including reproductive health rights. Poor women, who lack adequate food, basic health care, or modern contraception, suffer grave consequences for reproductive health. A woman who is malnourished and in poor health runs much greater risks in reproductive health issues and usually suffers without proper treatment and dies in most of cases. The negative consequences of denying RHR extend beyond women’s reproductive health to their overall health, the welfare of their children, and even the economic and social fabric of nations. This thesis presents a study of socio-economic and cultural determinants of attitude towards reproductive health rights in Punjab, Pakistan. The immediate objective of the study was to ascertain the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the respondent’s attitude towards reproductive health rights which have affect on married women’s knowledge about reproductive health rights and their attitude towards the practices of RHR to maintain their health and to meet their reproductive health need and to investigate the relationship between respondent’s socio cultural factors and their attitude towards reproductive health rights. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 700 married women having at least one child in three districts; Toba-Tek Singh, Bahawalpur, and Rawalpindi of Punjab province, Pakistan. In addition, focus group discussions were also carried out for detailed qualitative information on the issue. After editing and cleaning, a three-fold analysis, at uni-variate, bi-variate and multi-variate levels, of coded data, was undertaken. The main findings at bi-variate level analysis show a significant relationship between all socio-economic and cultural factors (i.e. monthly income, gender role, women’s economic status, inter-spousal communication, mobility, decision making, awareness about HIV/AIDS, modernity, life style aspiration) and the married women’s attitudes towards the acquisition of knowledge and the practice of RHR to maintain their reproductive health rights. Multi-variate analysis showed that the most important and contributing socio-economic factors in explaining married women’s’ attitudes towards the practice of RHR were; monthly income, women’s economic status (currently paid employment), women’s communication with her husband, and women’s decision making power. Therefore, it was concluded on the basis of multi-variate analysis that socio- economic and cultural factors were more important than structural/ environmental and programmatic factors in making women’s attitude positive and more consistent for practicing RHR in Pakistan. From the focus groups discussions it was found that there was a lack of inter-spousal communication particularly over the issue of adoption and practice of RHR. Generally a feeling of forced sex in marriage prevailed. Majority of participants had no participation in decision making process because they assumed and accepted that their husband had final authority to take decision because they wereeconomically dependent upon them and they had to follow the husbands’ decisions otherwise they had to face the music in their marital life. That’s why decisions regarding total number of siblings, to move independently even for the sake of their reproductive health were settled by their husbands. In other words, the qualitative results supported the survey findings that the prevailing socio-economic and cultural situation had the principle influence on such reflexive attitude of married women. On the basis of major findings it is suggested that there is a need to encourage women’s employment; to promote inter-spousal communication particularly initiative taken by women and to support women’s participation in decision making process generally at household level and particularly in family formation to enable them to practice this reproductive health rights.