Both woman and man should be deemed as engine and trunk of a vehicle whose collective efforts may garner material success. The non-acceptance of women’s due position, contribution and participation in structuring a developed and advanced society may deepen our miseries. The unfortunate girl late teen aged Rokhshana rendered prey to wide practiced callousness –killed in cold blood without conviction of adultery. The merciless killing took place about a week ago in a Taliban-controlled area just outside Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province.

There is nothing to worry about –insurgency, extremism and violence have homogenized in a single whole. But what the government has got to do nothing less what was practiced publicly. Regretfully, the government instead of taking measures to uphold women rights, back lashes by enforcement of stoning in Afghanistan penal code. Human Rights Watch registered grave distress said that a working group led by the Justice Ministry that is assisting in drafting Afghanistan’s new penal code had proposed provisions on “moral crimes” involving adultery that call for stoning. The political leader has got to lead the nation towards modernization that accepts democratic values and human rights matters then outdated norms.  The culture deeming women as subordinate citizen multiplies their receptiveness to greater tendency of being subjected to worst treatment. The widespread ignorance provides strong reason to ongoing violence. The flawed cultural practices supported by high degree of illiteracy ratify intense violence against women, stand legitimate and justified. Apart from formal education, community based adult education and awareness campaigns on complimentary right’s issues complementary to Islamic teachings might assuage the stringency of substandard customary law that undermines women rights.

It is witnessed the prevalent violence that hold women on receiving end is to do with social upbringing and irrational socio-religious practices. Being born and raised underestimating girls, consequently we dare hindering equal participation of women in socio-political arenas; we strive hard equating their right to liberty and pursuit of happiness, bashfulness and contrary to Islamic teachings. Going short of tolerance and patience finding women chase a goal-oriented life getting enraged is ridiculousness.

The statistic released by Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA) is in harmony with said state of affairs. It is unearthed incidents of violence against women increased this year mainly due to the presence of illegal armed groups, insecurity, corruption and failure to pass the law that prevents violation of women’s rights by parliament. According to the statistics, 815 incidents of violence against the gender were registered during the first six months of the year compared to 764 incidents during the same period last year. More than 800 incidents of violence against women took place during the first six months of the ongoing solar year, compared to 764 incidents during the same period last year.

It is strange that till date the social participation of women deemed a taboo at large –makes them difficult to head to public offices on a distinct position multiply their susceptibility to violence. Women found exercising her willingness contrary to parental dictate is subjected to severe criticism and humiliation; is recklessly shunned to depth of utter hopelessness. The society where negation of unsound commandment is deemed immodesty and conceit, and pursuit of a rational discourse unpardonable sin, lies at the depth of moral abyss. Hence, a woman is bound to lead a life, at utter submission of her family associates otherwise the harshest possible violence await their fate.

The MoWA has recorded 2,880 incidents of violence include murders, beheadings, suicides, torture, self-emollition, might be the part of figure that got public. Last year’s crimes against the gender included 36 murders, 21 suicides, 32 sexual attacks, 300 cases of torture, 48 divorces, 41 forced marriages. But this year 39 women were murdered, 22 committed suicide and 27 were sexual attacked, 390 tortured, 47 divorced and 36 forced into marriages. The remaining cases include elopement, underage marriages, discrimination, dowry claims, alimony, denying education and inherence rights, kidnappings, physical torture, verbal torture, insult, and death threats. Subjugating an inferior to harsh suppression has been prominent feature of patriarchal society where women are hold prone to suppression and intimidation. This is not to render man at fault; instead laws safeguarding women’s rights are minimally applied. Every alternate day endless tales of butcheries, physical torture, harassment and sexual assaults are surfaced where women render prey to flawed cultural practices, biased laws and Sharia doctrines. We turn deaf ears to the hapless cries, blind eyes negligent to see the magnitude of mental sufferings she endures while getting out to earn a livelihood, numb to realize the numerous pain of gender based victimization she bears frequently, because of fallacious socio-religious structure based on irrational biases. It reflects women are coerced to repression after being found hapless and voiceless.

The widespread ignorance provides strong reason to ongoing violence. The flawed cultural practices supported by high degree of illiteracy ratify intense violence against women, stand legitimate and justified. The culture deeming women as subordinate citizen multiplies their receptiveness to greater tendency of being subjected to worst treatment. Apart from formal education, community based adult education and awareness campaigns on momentous right’s issues might assuage the stringency of substandard customary law that undermines women rights.

The contemporary society of Afghanistan does not lag behind in this regard the hindrance to former ratification of law safeguarding the women’s right is the manifestation to underlying fact. It should not stereotype women’s isolation and dependence, as an emblem of decency and modesty; -it is meant to plague the half of resourceful human resource. There is a single Elimination of Violence against Women (EVWA) law awaiting its fate whose approval can check the violence against women. Due to differences, the Afghan parliament is yet to approve the EVWA Law, which was decreed into law through an Executive Order by the former President Hamid Karzai on July 20, 2009, while parliament was in recess. The denial to turning it into law depicts women nothing more valued than a object that could be turned and twisted to any direction devoid their mutual consent.