Social Issues By

“Warisha Masood”

SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF PAKISTAN

SOCIAL ISSUES IN PAKISTAN

• Economy : Standards of living,Poverty,slums,tasport,communication,etc

• Health : Healthcare,HIV/Aids,Polio,Smoking,etc

• Education : Literacy, School corporal punishment

• Family : family planing,complex family,nuclear family,dowry,divorse,etc.

• Children : Street children,child labour,child marrige (sawra . Vani), child prostitution .

• Women : Ave teasing,Aid throughing,bride burring,watta satta,women rights in Pakistan

• Cast system : Cast system among south Asian Muslims

SOCIAL ISSUES IN PAKISTAN

• Crime and terrorism : Terrorism,corruption,human trafficking,illegal immigration,organised crime,war on terror

• Environmental issues : effects of Global warming, natural disaster ,water supply and sanitation

• Media : Censorship,Internet censorship.

• Others : Democracy,Domestic voilence in Pakistan,humman rights,Hijra,suicide,gambling,alcohal prohibition.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE • Violence encompasse

“physical, visual, verbal or sexual acts that are experienced by a woman or girl,

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• As threat, invasion, or assault and that have the effect of hurting her or degrading her and /or taking away her ability to control contact (intimate and otherwise) with another individual”

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

TYPES OF VIOLENCE Physical: pushing, grabbing,

slapping, kicking, hitting with an object, use of

knife or gun, acid throwing, burning.

Verbal: shouting, making threats, calling

names, humiliating remarks (gestures).

Exercising control: Isolating her from

her family/ friends checking on her, using

the children, economic control.

WHY IS VICTIMIZATION OF WOMEN SO COMMON.?

• Physically weak.• Dependency status.• Social tolerance of victimization.• Little whom they associate with.• Limited mobility

OUT’PATIENT DEPARTMENTS OF PSYCHIATRY, LIAQAT NATIONAL HOSPITAL, PNS SHIFA AND SOBRAJ HOSPITAL KARACHI. • 63% of the participants were

identified as victims of domestic violence on Karachi Domestic Violence Screening Scale.

• 36% of the victims were males .• 64% of the victims were females.

OUT’PATIENT DEPARTMENTS OF PSYCHIATRY, LIAQAT NATIONAL HOSPITAL, PNS SHIFA AND SOBRAJ HOSPITAL KARACHI.

• 35% of the victims reported facing physical abuse.

• 52% of the victims reported psychological abuse and 60% of the victims had depression.

EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE• Depression • Chronic pain • Death • Dehydration • Panic attacks • Drug and alcohol dependence • Eating disorders • Emotional "over-reactions" to

stimuli • General emotional numbing • Health problems • Repeated self-injury

• IT’ S HARD TO STOP BECAUSE IT’S HARD TO REPORT!!