Adil Najam
Back in July, ATP had posted a picture of former world squash champion Jansher Khan being hauled away in a police van on charges of trespass and violent attack on a woman. Now, Moin Khan, former cricket captain and wicketkeeper, has joined Jansher in the Hall of Disgrace for beating his wife.
Shame on you, both of you. You may once have been stars. You are stars no more. And, Moin, even if you have been freed on bail, that does not absolve you in our eyes for maltreating your wife. No Sir. This is not a private matter between man and wife. This is a matter of national disgrace. But my anger at this incident is making me run ahead of the story.
So, first the news as reported in the Daily Times (17 January, 2006):
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Moin Khan was arrested by the Darakhshan police late Monday night after his wife Tasleem alias Shama Seher made a phone call to Madadgar 15, complaining that he had beaten her.
According to Town Police Officer (TPO) ASP Azad Khan, the police received a phone call from Seher after midnight. A police team visiting the house found Seher standing outside and Moin Khan screaming at her from within. After a struggle, Moin Khan was taken in preventive detention under Section 151 of the CrPC, the TPO said. The couple was taken to the Darakhshan police station from where Moin was taken to JPMC for a medical examination. Seher was also taken to JPMC for a medical examination later on.
“If injuries are reported by the doctors examining her or a blood test confirms that he was intoxicated, the law will take its course,” said the TPO. Darakhshan SHO Inspector Zia Rizvi told Daily Times that this was a domestic matter, “but we brought it on to the court record”. Moin was produced in a local court and was granted bail. Seher told Daily Times that Moin had been disturbed for three days. “This isn’t something new, its been like this for a while,” she added. “He accused me of being involved with his friends. I asked why he was beating me and he told me that he hated the look of my face. He said, “Tum apnay gireban me jhanko, apni shakal dekho, apna character dekho” … There’s no special reason. Things were normal but I don’t know what had happened as recently he started to get harsh after drinking. I think that Moin still thinks of himself as a young star, Seher, a showbiz person herself, said. “Cricketers have the same life … (Another Karachi cricketers) wife recently separated and got custody of the children. Complaints remain as (many) cricketers treat their wives like this. Woh apnay beewiyon ke sath is tarha ka rawaiya rakhtay hain … Is tarha kay rawaiye mein kon sath reh sakta he? The problem with (some) cricketers is that they are getting better options outside the house. Unhain ghar ki murghi daal barabar lagti he.”
Both Moin Khan and the police seem to say that this is a ‘personal’ or ‘domestic’ matter. No, it really is not. It is a social matter. A national matter.
This case catches our attention because the man is a former cricket star and the wife a former TV personality. But the story here is repeated every day and goes unnoticed and unreported. His intoxication obviously made matters worse, but the malady here is deeper than alcoholism. It is the way women are treated. The Jansher case was one example, but there have been many others that we have raised here on ATP. Wife-beating is a serious social sin and the sinners here are not only those who do so, it is also those who condone it in the name of tradition or because it is a ‘personal matter’, and it is also those of see it happening and choose to remain quiet.
[quote post=”529″]if someone reads your comment without reading above comments[/quote]
No, those who have been visiting this blog for long time or people who go thru entire thread rather jumping in the middle would not waste a minute to understand the of this guy.
As I requested you to ignore these kids and let them play in cradles. His mighty ignorance didn’t make him to go thru entire thread otherwise he would have read himself that people who tried to make this thread religious were his own brothers like Akif,Jayjay and few others. Since MQ is a born lover of Iqbal. MQ’s religious knowledge was explained by Iqbal pretty well.
Khud badalte naheen Quran ko badal dete hain
huwey kis darja faqeehane haram be taufiq
So deal such particular cabal accordingly.
Salamalikum,
[quote post=”529″]A simple case of assault (assault and battery in the US legal terminology), has been turned by the ATP in-house mullahs into a battle between ‘Haq’ and ‘Baatil’ or Islam and ‘kufr’.[/quote]
Thank you first for updating us on US legal terms when the matter concerns Pakistan. Secondly, who talked about kufr? Again, don’t put words in people’s mouths, ok? If someone reads your comment without reading above comments, he/she might think that people are calling each other kafir or talking about kufr and imaan on this post. And, how come a Muslim drinking alcohol, and then beating up his wife not a matter of haq or baatil?
[quote post=”529″]Teri namaaz maiN baaqi jalaal hai na jamaal
Teri azaaN maiN naheeN hai meri sahar ka payaam
In your religiosity and prayers there is neither dignity nor beauty
In your call for prayer I do not see the signs of dawn[/quote]
So, a person who thinks this is not a case that involves Islam (when it clearly does) want to judge a Muslim’s deed as pious enough or not!! I’m not saying I’ve have jalaal or jamaal in my namaaz. But, could it not be, MQ, that it’s you who might not see jalaal or jamaal in someone’s deeds even though that preson might have it?
Nobody considered Bill Clinton as less of a President because he had sex with Monica Lewinsky. Most of the people have even forgotten it except for the Daily Show guys.
Lets keep professional and personal conduct seperate in Moin’s case as we do in other cases. He was a good cricketer and thats a fact.
The issue has nothing to do with Islam. He was drunk and beat his wife which was wrong. He has been punished for his crime and we should leave him alone. Since we are talking Shariat which we do a lot nowadays with every pseudo-mulla tom, pseudo-intellectual dick and pseudo-secular harry jumping in, how about some lashes for drinking?
[quote comment=”29872″]I repeat that professional skills of some invidual has NO relation with his nature,characterstics etc. Why is it so hard to understand this?[/quote]
I do not think anyone has suggested that he is any less of a cricketer because of this. But I personally do think he is less of a person for doing this. To me at least who one is as a person is far more important than who one is as a professional.
A simple case of assault (assault and battery in the US legal terminology), has been turned by the ATP in-house mullahs into a battle between ‘Haq’ and ‘Baatil’ or Islam and ‘kufr’.
Reading the long sermons and the taunts by these mullahs all I can say is repeat what Allama Iqbal said about them:
Teri namaaz maiN baaqi jalaal hai na jamaal
Teri azaaN maiN naheeN hai meri sahar ka payaam
In your religiosity and prayers there is neither dignity nor beauty
In your call for prayer I do not see the signs of dawn