By Komal Ahmed
Near Shahjamal Fazlia colony many females gather to get just a bag. Women barefoot, oily hair and some necks dusted with prickly powder. Stand firm and brisk with hands stretched as far as they could reach a pink bag not knowing what they will get inside. Just a peek a boo.
Minorities who are considered second class citizens says that “I am alright however my kids are starving and that is the reason now I am not alright!” says Sehrish who worked at a local parlor in Lahore. The outbreak of corona has not affected alone to the Muslims but also to the minorities. Individuals imagine that the arrangements and insurances managed by the legislature are similarly accessible to all residents and that the minimized more likely than not passed up these open doors because of their own carelessness. Be that as it may, it is imperative to look further into the causes, lawful parameters and financial real factors.
We all have different stories so does minorities. Traffic is slower than usual, but a group of children and minority females have climbed the small stage made of bricks to reach out the one distributing along the route, waving, singing along to “Haijamalo!” and a pink bag. Their social and monetary powerlessness is exacerbated by lawful imbalance and absence of equivalent insurance under law. Institutional separation based on religion – exemplified in Articles 31, 41 and 91 of the constitution – comes full circle in strict minorities being treated as peons. This extra weakness of social and institutional segregation blocks their entrance to certain insurances that a normal lady can benefit.
It is the ideal opportunity for Pakistan’s national initiative to reevaluate before it’s past the point of no return.
