Yes.
I find it quite fascinating that Pakistan was itself formed at roughly the same time in roughly the same way, in a partition that was undeniably on a much larger scale
15 million people were uprooted from their homes in the largest forced migration in human history. Up to two million were slaughtered, butchered in trains, fields, and villages by mobs. More than 75,000 women were raped, abducted, or forced into marriage, their lives shattered in acts of unspeakable violence. Entire cities emptied overnight, families torn in two, and homes-millions of them-burned, looted, or stolen.
But of course that is just filed under "shit happens" and we all manage to live in the present and accept two people's both wanted independence on the same land so it was split.
But today, now, in the present, Pakistan is a military hybrid regime with some of the nost brutal human rights violations in the world going on under your noses.
Blasphemy laws-some of the harshest in the world-are used to persecute religious minorities and silence dissent, often violently.
Girls, some as young as 9, are sold into marriage like cattle every year, with the law watching from the sidelines.
Over 1,000 women a year are butchered by their own families in honour killings.
Rape is a tool of power used from villages to police stations, and conviction is so rare it’s practically government policy.
Young Hindu girls are kidnapped, raped, and forced to become Muslim brides and nobody says a bloody word.
Beatings, electric shocks, and sexual assault are common interrogation techniques in a justice system that tortures first and asks questions never.
If you're a journalists or activist, speaking out means vanishing-one day you're critical, the next you're gone, and no one dares ask where.
State-sanctioned persecution of Ahmadis and Shia Muslims is normalised. Being the “wrong kind” of Muslim is a criminal offence, with mosques demolished, graves defaced, and believers jailed for existing.
The internet, TV, and newspapers are scrubbed of anything inconvenient to the army or the mullahs, turning truth into contraband.
Extrajudicial killings by security forces are well documented but ignored. The police and military execute people in staged shootouts, and call it justice while posing for photos.
Entire families, including children, are enslaved in brick kilns and farms for debts that grow bigger the longer they work.
Lower-caste citizens, especially Hindus, are treated as human garbage, denied jobs, justice, and dignity. This has been long classified as aparteid by NGOs but people prefer to imvent aparteid in other places.
Hundreds of women are melted alive in acid attacks each year by jealous lovers or rejected suitors who face little more than a slap on the wrist.
Impunity for violence against women is the cultural norm. Domestic violence, rape, and murder of women are treated as private matters, with victims often punished more harshly than perpetrators.
Widespread judicial corruption - In courtrooms across the country, justice is for sale, and the highest bidder writes the verdict.
"The world stage" is fascinating, is it not?
Oh we can give excuses and pretend men like Humza do it because of some personal involvement, but he's been doing it for 16 years before that too.
We can pretend people are just interested now because of the war, and some kind of immediate crisis but that's really just not true.
Malnutrition claims the lives of over 177,000 children under the age of five each year in Pakistan. Nearly 40 percent of young children are chronically malnourished and nearly 2 million at immediate risk of death.
He has the time to get his special Pakistan tartan made up but he can't open his fucking mouth about any of this.
The point here isn't humanitarianism or protecting starving kids or saving people from persecution. The point here really is using every shred of energy to demonise Israel, to paint it as evil in a way no other place is, to paint Palestinians as unfortunate in a way no other people are, and anyone who pretends it isnt antisemitism is honestly either a liar or in complete denial.
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