The Dhaka Times Desk A live talk show (talkshow) was running on a television channel in Pakistan. A woman journalist was also among the guests who attended, an Islamist senate member threatened to rape the journalist.
Apart from the Islamist member, there was also a barrister on that talk show.
The senator threatened to rape the female journalist during the live discussion on the News One channel. Millions of viewers watched that scene live on television.
Reported by News.com.au, female journalist Marvi Sarmed, conservative Senate member of Jamaat Ulama-e-Islam Hafiz Hamdullah and barrister Masroor Sahib were present as guests in the program titled 'Ten PM with Nadia Mirza'.
The talk show guests were discussing the 'honor killing' that has increased in Pakistan in recent times.
At one stage of the discussion, Barrister Masroor mocked the silence of the country's Islamist leaders on honor killings. Hamdullah became angry after hearing this.
Then Marvi Sarmed joined the discussion. He said, 'He also agrees with Barrister Masrur on several issues. This time Senator Hamdullah stopped this journalist in the middle. A fierce debate started over the issue.
In this regard, Marvi said on his Facebook account, “He started misbehaving with me using very bad words. He called me a whore. He said, 'I will take off your pajamas and I will also take off your mother's pajamas'."
In protest of these words, when the woman told the journalist Hamdullah that 'Do this to your family members,' then Hamdullah came to beat her. At that time, a security guard removed the senator. Otherwise, Marvi's face would have been punched!
Marvi said, when the religious trader was saying these things, he was fasting again!
In view of this incident, Marvi requested the country's senate chairman Reza Rabbani to investigate the allegations brought against Hamdullah. He also requested News One channel to release the video footage of the event.
According to News.com.au report, violence against women in Pakistani society is increasing day by day. Especially wives and daughters are considered as family property here. Incidents like honor killing, acid-terrorism, bride burning, child marriage and sexual harassment are commonplace here. The most alarming thing is that most of these crimes are illegal. Pakistan ranks 147th out of 188 countries in the UN Gender Inequality Index.
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