Read this news, sent by colleague…

Groom lets his friends rape bride as revenge
Web posted at: 5/31/2005 2:20:30
Source ::: Internews

LAHORE: In an act of revenge, a woman was gang-raped with the consent of her in-laws by three people on her wedding night in Dera Ghazi Khan town in central Pakistan, police said.
Ghulam Hussain, the father of the victim Kaneez Kubra, said his daughter was married to Mujahid Hussain on April 28, as ordered by a panchayat (local jury) under the wani custom since her brother Abdul Majid had sexual relations with Mujahid’s sister Sumera.
After the wedding, Kaneez went to the groom’s home. Her husband stayed with her in their room till 11 pm and then left. Afterwards, Mujahid’s grandfather Shahroo Khan and his mother Mukhtar came in and told the bride that the wedding was just an excuse to exact revenge on Majid for outraging Sumera’s modesty.

Mujahid then invited his three friends Muhammad Rafiq, Shabbir Muhammad and Abdul Majid Almani, who gang-raped the bride. The next day, Mujahid took her to the house of his friend Ghulam Mustafa, who also assaulted her.

On April 30, when Ghulam and other relatives arrived to take Kaneez back as per tradition, she related the story to her father. Investigation Officer Zulfikar Ali Qureshi said the police were making raids to arrest the accused but they had left the area and gone into hiding after the case was registered against them.

and I had to say:

what concerns me most is it’s becoming ‘just another news’ these dayz… :-s

one of those that raises another what-are-we-becoming question… and then we’ll get back to work… n will keep an update on what’s happening with the lady n its family… n what the police is doing… n what’s not… another lunch-hour-discussion-topic…

He said:

what if the lunch hour discussion focused on what can be done

I replied:

Yes, but I believe authorities are making sure whatever can be done is NOT done!

Do we really have a say? Will we be heard at all?

many thanks to ejaz, who’ve converted it for me in Urdu text… such a nice guy :)

کچھ بھی تو نہیں

کیا میرا ہے۔۔۔
کچھ بھی تو نہیں

یہ نیلا امبر، زرد زمین
کچھ بھی تو نہیں

یہ اڑتے پنچھی اور ہوایں
اور دریاوں کا شور کہیں
کچھ بھی تو نہیں

یہ چاند ستارے اور موسم
یہ رنگ برنگے پھول حسین
کچھ بھی تو نہیں

جو اپنا تھا وہ روٹھ گیا
اک سپنا تھا جو ٹوٹ گیا

جو میرا تھا ہر موسم میں
پت جھڑ میں بھی اور ساون میں

یہ موسم، پت جھڑ اور ساون
کیا میرا ہے؟
کچھ بھی تو نہیں۔۔۔

life is not as simple as it seems…

i’ve always feared to have changed…
but i did…
no matter what you do…
you can’t remain unchanged…
no matter how firm you think u will be…
you do change…

okay.. here’s a test for http://www.photobucket.com photo blogging option.

Following is one of the display picture i created for my MSN messenger.