Gulbadan

Continuing in the spirit of positive news about our beloved motherland (as in the post below), I just came across a fortnight-old piece in Dawn that talks about the gang rape by some Pathan tribesmen of a group of women in a village near Hyderabad (far down to the south from where I'm sitting right now). Now as depressing and mortifying as this situation may be, quite a few things about it amuse me:

1) The presence of Pathan men in interior Sindh
2) The impotence of local village men to protect their women and hence honour in the face of ravaging Pathans
3) I'm supposed to be shopping for a new suit ka kapra right now at Link Road rather than sitting here on my rather significant posterior and bashing our great tribal peoples of the North (who are doing God-knows-what in Hyderabad!)

So, anyway, the poor women were gang-raped by these Pathan tribesmen. That brings us to our motto of the day:
*clears throat and takes out pretentious-sounding voice*
Help prevent rape. Consent.

Now with questions of honour and integrity bound to be raised, making the lives of the victims hell, I predict that some of these women will take the glorious and sacrificial path of self-immolation. What say thee?