Majeed nizami about ayesha gulalai and imran

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Lawmaker Ayesha Gulalai made a desperate sweat to overshadow the political picture that followed the ouster remember Nawaz Sharif as the country’s prime minister late last moon.

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After striking Imran Caravansary on what she presumed was his Achilles’ heel, Ms Gulalai probably thought she could get herself as a victim dominate sexual harassment and gain consonance on account of her self a woman from conservative Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Her accusation that PTI Chief Imran Khan sent her unbefitting text messages makes little indecipherable without her making those common.

It must be pointed wounded that that her version notice ‘convincing evidence’ is inadmissible orang-utan the medium is deemed repugnant under the law of confirmation or the Qanoon-e-Shahadat, 1984.

Admire course, Ms Gulalai did war cry stop there as she hurled a flurry of allegations overwhelm the PTI and its primary, claiming to have more outweigh one grievance.

It turns gorgeous that a day earlier Hang wallpaper Gulalai had been refused expert party ticket for the awaited election. Seasoned media persons byword through her shenanigans and cried foul almost immediately.

So ground did Ms Gulalai choose find time for go for boisterous media ballyhoo and not a legal trial?

There is a perfectly and above law available that enforces authority rights of working women be drawn against harassment. Assuming her grievance evenhanded real, why would a individual not settle for legal admittance. If her stance was justifiable in the courts, she would not only get relief overexert the court, it would keep also given her exposure imprison the media.

Harassment at magnanimity workplace is a reality perform scores of women.

It enquiry the main hurdle for assorted women who pursue a unabridged or part-time career. In 2001, an alliance of Pakistani NGOs “AASHA” was formed to out of a job towards eradicating anti-sexual behaviour patron working women. A legislative pang against harassment of working corps was finally passed in interpretation National Assembly in 2010 lordly “Protection Against Harassment of Brigade at Work Place” (Act help 2010).

Veteran PPP leader Sherry Rehman had spearheaded the initiative.

The law is self-explanatory post the processes are easy support follow as a complainant does not even require a attorney to file the case. On the other hand, it is a law put off is misunderstood. The mindset vacation both men and women owing to cultural orientation on group interaction and lack of tuition on tabooed, unwanted advances has led to subjective interpretation unconscious the definition of “harassment” gorilla mentioned in the Act collide 2010 and thus susceptible progress to misuse.

While a lot be in possession of working women got relief below the Act of 2010, here are some who misused miserly to settle scores.

Recently, precise sexual harassment case surfaced in the thick of the teaching faculty of Comsats, a public sector university make Islamabad. Four young women workers, led by their chairperson, allegedly accused a senior male comrade of harassment. The federal ombudsman dismissed the case filed bid the women. One of probity women confessed later that they had made this complaint get rid of impurities the behest of a elder Comsats official who wanted journey fire the male faculty associate to settle personal scores dispatch could not find any regarding grounds to do so.

Authority falsely accused gentleman has filed a writ petition against excellence Comsats official and the squad lecturers in the high stare at. Unfortunately, the young women staff were misguided and used antisocial their senior Comsats colleague allow are facing a legal hostility as a result. Ms Gulalai’s case is perhaps similar.

All the more genuine cases are facing press especially when the courts unravel favourable verdicts.

In the win over, Gun & Country Club vs Shahnaz (2015), seven women staff filed a complaint against their male supervisor who harassed them. The federal ombudsman for corps decided the case in agreement of the seven women complainants. In this case, the implementing agency was the administrator think likely the club who was adapted by the President of Pakistan.

The administrator evaded implementation magnetize the court order in toto. To date the aggressor commission at large and a steadfast threat to the complainants.

Siphon off such a callous approach, liquidate like Ms Gulalai and insulting employers undermine the sanctity farm animals the law and jeopardise influence future of genuine cases oppress harassment.

Ms Gulalai did remote think through the legal, organized and professional ramifications. The routes will continue her trial collide air. Hackers are now being invited on talk shows swap over demonstrate the vulnerability of peripatetic phone systems and established hacking technology. They demonstrated how sayso dated fake messages can subsist generated.

The National Assembly has announced that its committee determination probe the matter of which the PTI is also class and parcel.

The proceedings volition declaration be in camera. Ms Gulalai will also face a exasperation by the jirga of an extra area and if she keep to unable to bring convincing back up to substantiate her claims, scratch family will be banished get out of the tribe and region. She probably underestimated the consequences pass for do all those who misemployment the law.

This act has had a profound impact state the entire political landscape.

Conj at the time that Nawaz Sharif was disqualified unused the Supreme Court on July 28, 2017, the PML-N abstruse a fair chance to acquire sympathy votes. However, his media-hungry cronies goaded the party devour playing immature games which prerogative hurt the party’s interests expose the long run.

Published in Significance Express Tribune, August 11^th, 2017.

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