With the advancement of time, sensitive matters pertaining to women rights are confidently discussed and brought under the limelight in order to spread awareness; hoping to bring a stop to the torment and abuse women receive. However, Pakistani women continue to suffer at the hands of men and the law does nothing to support them. If anything it was devised in a way to only favor the men, the powerful and the corrupt.
A sad story emerges of beauty and fashion blogger Amna Atiq!
The men in her life played with her sanity, respect, dignity, and self-worth until she was thrown at the edge of insanity. Still, she carried on mustering up strength for her precious little daughter. However, Amna is no more and died in mysterious circumstances.
Her painful story!
Her father under the influence of his second wife forced Amna to marry someone completely unknown, against her will and rejected the man who loved her immensely on the grounds that he wasn’t financially stable. Amna’s husband turned out to be druggy, an alcoholic and a womanizer. He would physically, mentally and emotionally abuse her to the point that she went into a deep depression. She had a daughter with her first husband and was divorced later.
After being kicked out by her husband, she went back to her father who didn’t accept her. In her recital, she explains how in Pakistani society, women are expected to ‘compromise’ and ‘tolerate’ abuse in order to keep their marriage intact. If they do get a divorce, not only they bring shame onto their own families but the society doesn’t respect them either. Since there is a stigma involved that a divorced woman is faulty in some way or another and the solely responsible for the divorce.
However, things started to change when her first love entered her and her daughter’s life. She was happy, loved and safe.
But, something changed in her second husband who sometime down the line turned out to be the same as the first one, or maybe worse. He would physically torture her, taunting her about her past, hitting her, burning her hands and so much more.
After going live in a private females-only group discussing her sorrows, Amna was found dead a few days after!
It is being speculated that she committed suicide succumbing to her depression and the torture she was receiving from her second husband. However, chances of her being murdered are very much on the table.
Domestic violence can not be curbed by mere laws. There is a dire need of a better upbringing of boys where parents teach them by example about the value and respect of women. Patriarchy is toxic and breeds future abusers. Amna’s death is proof of how women suffer at the hands of toxic masculinity.
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