FilmIndia (1948)

m Lau Call! n a This section is the monopoly of 'JUDAS" and he writes what he likes and about things which he likes. The views expressed here are not necessarily ours, but still they carry weight because they are written by a man who knows his job. DAYLIGHT ROBBERS OF PAKISTAN In Pakistan or rather in Karachi, the cradle of the Quaid-i-Azam and capital of Pakistan, no Hindu employee of the Government is allowed to send away his family and particularly his womenfolk out of Sind. An official circular says that even his attempt to do so would be construed as disloyalty to Pakistan. Those Hindus, who had managed earlier to ' send out their wives and daughters to save them from the carnal affections of sex-crazy Pakistanis, are also not allowed to go out of Sind even to meet their womenfolk. They are asked to spend their vacation in Sind under official observation. This solicitude of Pakistani officials to keep the Hindu home life intact in Pakistan is very touching. It has a Nazi fragrance. They would, of course, not mind the men going out as long as the women are left behind. One wonders whether this anxiety for Hindu women, is because of the undeniable ciri cumstance of Sind being a notoriously short province in the matter of women. If the official crime reports for the province of Sind are studied carefullv, we discover that over 80% of all crime reported in the province is the sex crime in which a single woman often causes as many as six murders, a dozen abductions and several stabbings. And this sex crime is exclusively Muslim because to every 22 sex-mad Muslim males there is only one Muslim female. This disparity has always jeopardized the safety of Hindu women and the courts are often full of different sex crimes, ranging from "chhed chhad" to regular abduction and rape. With Pakistan an established fact, the sexstarved Sindi Muslims probably hope to secure home comforts by abducting as many Hindu women ££ possible. By this now-easy method they also hope to attain a more favourable ratio between the two sexes than at present. At present there are too many sex-hungry Hurs end Muslim Sindis let loose all over Sind for any decent young woman — usually Hindu but sometimes even Muslim — to move about without an official escort, provided the members of the escort themselves get their sex meat every day. Even a couple of Muslim film stars, who had expected their Garden of Allah to be a haven of safety and security, were roughly manhandled and stripped for private entertainment by some semiofficial goondas. They were used to being stripped with money but not with force and that is where the objection came in. With such bestial standard of behaviour prevalent in the new state of Allah, it is not surprising that decent Hindus have sent away their womenfolk to places of safety in the Indian Union. But in doing so they robbed the local hyenas of their prey. The Pakistanis of Sind want Hindu women as spice for their new life of bestial freedom and it is no wonder that they will stop at nothing to prevent even a single Hindu woman from going out of the province. The Hindus of India may as well write off all the Hindu women who are still in Pakistan, for some reason or other, as most of them are only fated to rock the cradles of Islam, if not die of venereal disease. In India, however, the Pakistani Muslim enjoys all the freedoms and though a damn cowardly traitor inside of him, he moves about with complete safety in a secular state where every human life is sacrosanct. He has been allowed to ferry across his wife and children, and mistresses in some cases; he Manorama is in Bombay these clays playing a role in "Suhagi", by Blue Art Pictures. 7