It is universal and retains common threads:

1. It is silently done for it is inside the walls of the house which has a legal history of protection from both state and outsiders.

2. Against a gender weak in physical strength.

3. Domestic because it even with and after police / courts intervention, the separation of parties is necessitated because it is the only solution.

4. Familial because it generally involves children and break up of families is destructive and it carries permanent scars. Motherhood feeling generally gets invoked as she concludes that the price paid may have dividends for the best of the children.

The post seems to suggest that mobility is the answer. While it has some level of truth to it, it is not the simple answer. The societies with mobility have not been able to resolve domestic violence issues and remains the single most undocumented problem.

I personally think it has to do with state of mind that respects the weak. A mindset with empathy. A mind examiner of truth and seeker of justice.

For a mind which is capable of the above is not a mind which will resort to violence to settle a dispute.

The problem in Pakistan is also compounded by laws that favor power. A judicial system that is incapable of imparting justice because invariably the justice is delayed and thus denied. And a mindset that has its eyes shut on the weak.

In Pakistan poverty is discussed as object and not as “zulum”. Weak is someone to ignore; they exist over there.

Women are powerless in Pakistan because they are weak and so too are all the weak in Pakistan.

I have the audacity of hope that this will change and with urgency of now.