It was in all the Urdu newspapers, the leading ones and the misleading ones both have put that news item in the similar thrilling, marketable and callous context.

The news headline read as kunwari maan apna gunah pheink gai-roughly translated as that a virgin/unmarried mother has dumped the product of her sin.

Ever since I became able to read Urdu (and that happened at an early age of 6) I am reading such news. With growing age and understanding of the rules of business of our planet earth, I am feeling a deeper sense of pain, injustice and helplessness inside me (although the activist soul of mine is seldom willing to acknowledge that helplessness).

No, no I am not going to draw ones attention to the need of gender sensitive language in journalism. I am fully aware that many of my development colleagues are seriously embarked on this issue and many donor agencies are willingly offering their assistance in this regard.

What I have failed to accept that why our people are conditioned to be selective when it comes to the issues of morality and human behavior?

Why people relish to put the burden of blame, shame, guilt, honor and sets of ethics on women only?

Does this mean that men have no hiya,sharam,honor or self respect?