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The 17-year-old girl who was publicly flogged by the Taliban in Swat was not the first victim of barbarity nor is she likely to be the last. But the footage of the girl being publicly flogged has brought home for many the reality of the living hell that is today’s Pakistan. The extremists’ authority stems from the decisions taken by successive administrations, including the government now in power, which cede the writ of the state by striking deals with mass murderers. The state has failed the Pakistani people and stands guilty by association. Meghana M, Bradford All right-thinking people have reacted with horror and repulsion to the public flogging of the young woman. The way the victim was scourged, beaten, tortured and robbed of all dignity in front of a crowd as she was writhing about on the floor in excruciating pain was barbaric. The brutal punishment meted out by the blinkered and self-righteous zealots is a clear indication that the Taliban is in the ascendant in the region as the guarantor of an arid purity. A woman being given lashes on suspicion of loose morals is further evidence, if any needed, of the Taliban’s illiberal ideological underpinnings and its patent discrimination against women. No civilised society can ever promote ‘virtue’ or prevent ‘vice’ by public humiliation of the transgressors. When we look at what is being done in the name of religions, we sometimes feel that the world would be a better place without them.G. David Milton, Maruthancode
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