I am a woman in my early 30’s, I was abused as a child when I was five years old. The culprit was most trusted household help of ours.
I was threatened if I would speak, everyone will blame and beat me. I was weak but over the next two decades, I gathered up the courage to speak to a few friends of mine, what shocked me was that every girl I spoke to (keeping in mind they all came from elite class and from an educated background), at some point of her childhood went through abuse. Only two to three out of 100s of girls were fortunate enough to escape.
Each and every one of us was unfortunate that we went through such abuse but just not as unfortunate as Zainab.
I, as a mature woman, have no guts to talk to my parents about it. I wish if things weren’t that taboo in our society.
The pain of that abuse is still within me and would go with my life probably.
No day passes by without number of rape cases being reported. Newspapers are full of such news every day, what shocks me is that why are we Pakistanis shocked on Zainab’s incident?