🚨🚨#BREAKING: An anti terrorism court in #Quetta sentenced lifetime imprisonment to BYC leaders Dr @MahrangBaloch_, Sibghatullah Shah ji and Balach Qadir.
This is not merely about Mahrang and her comrades. The weaponization of the law to suppress peaceful activism also signifies the absolute refusal to hear those who have been marginalized for decades.
Your ‘30-40 camel-herding women of Koh-e-Suleman’ trope is racist, misogynist & a full on hateful tweet towards us. Before stereotyping, learn Balochistan’s geography: Makran had the highest literacy rate in Pakistan last year.
Sandeman didn’t come up with patriarchy btw. The entitlement to women’s lives that Baloch men have isn’t the state’s fault either. You can’t fix something if you keep deflecting.
One must not take pride in cold blooded murders in the name honour and dignity. The murders should be called out and criticised for their crimes against humanity and we as community should have tolerance and courage to accept and address our cultural evils.
Honour killing is not a matter of romanticisation; rather it is a grave social injustice that demands a critical lens to understand its deep rooted cultural and patriarchal aspects. It is a systematic pattern that perpetuates a cycle of violence.
If honour killing was a mere product of tribalism then the very idea would be foreign in the region of Makuran which unfortunately is not the case.
Honour killings must be condemned without justifications and romanticisation of Baloch culture.