Zil-e-Huma Usman, the Punjab Province Minister for Social Welfare and women’s rights activist, was shot and killed yesterday at a political meeting she was scheduled to speak at.
Mohammad Sarwar was immediately identified and arrested as the shooter, who is a known “fanatic� against the role of women in politics and was actually acquitted from at least six previous murder cases due to a lack of evidence. (Four of them being murders of sex workers.) After the third or fourth accusation, you’d think they’d start to catch on. Sigh.
Usman was elected as Member Provincial Assembly of Punjab in General Elections 2002, worked as Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Development from 2003 to the end of 2006, when she began working as a minister. She had been minister for less than three months.
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This is just so incredibly sad.
It is nice you posted this. My question to you 'feminists' is - what are you going to do about it?
Are you going to ask that the United States do something about this?
Are you going to protest a Pakistani embassy?
No, you are not.
You only attack American men and the United States - because it is safe or because your real enemy is the United States. It is one or the other.
Your hypocricy makes it very difficult to take fems seriously.
And your assumption that this has anything to do with attacking American men (a number of whom are feminists as well, by the way) or the United States makes it very difficult to take you seriously.
I thought it was the ridiculous tripe on his blog and the misspelling of hypocrisy that made it difficult to take him seriously.
Obviously, it didn't occur to him that not all of us are American, and some of us are Pakistani.