Summary of "Allah and Eva. Frauen in Pakistan." by Betsy Udink (2007)

-  Women are not protected:

• If her husband cries three times "I  divorce/abandon you" a divorce is valid acc. to Islam; but acc. to civil law it is valid until the husband has given notice of it at the registry office => if she marries a second time (also if after prescribed time span of three months) without her husband giving notice she can be accused of adultery ("Zina") => punishment possible acc. to Hudud-orders of Koran, which demand whipping  as  a punishment and which were adopted by Zia ul-Haq in 1979 and changed into a imprisonment fine
• honour killings (karo kari): punishement for this is only three months imprisonment; it is prohibited to grieve about someone who was killed that way; retaliation (Qisas) by Wali possible and blood money (Diyat), which is prescribed by a council of elders (Jirga); warden (Wali) is allowed to forgive the murderer and therefore those murderers won't get any punishment at all
• many die of stove burning with their dupatta

- 30% of all Pakistani women can read and write and 60% of all Pakistani men
- Pakistani health system is the worst in Asia
- Burka and arabian Abayas; long grey or dark blue jacket ("Manteau") is sign of fundamentalist women in Turkey, Irak, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan
- In 19th century cursing the other was a game of Christians and Muslims called Mubahahala
- ideologue of muslim fundamentalism is Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi (+1979) (with Egypt Sayyid Qutb) who founded the Jamaat e Islami (this party's newspaper is called "Jasarat") and stirred up hatred against the Ahmadis and the Ismailis
- Shalwar Kameez was originally the costume of the Parsis; fundamentalists parties union (MMA) want to abolish all insurances, close all jails, dismiss all clerks who do not pray five times a day
- SAHIL is an organisation against the sexual abuse of boys: those prostitute boys (Balkay/Bachabzai) are tradition in Pashtu regions, this is an effect of the distance of men an woman (Purdah) in the culture (often truckers have those Balkays whom they also train)
- acc. to islamic law a statement of a woman is worth only half; rule of Koran to have not more than four women; belief that the gardens of paradise (Janna) would be full of virgins (Huris) and with family members and everybody would be 33 years old); islamic prohibition of adopting a child; islamic law: 1/8 of property of husband is the maximum all his wives can inherit; muslim women cannot be friends with non-muslim women; children can be beaten from the age of 10 on when they dont
- book "Women who deserve to go to Hell" by Egypt Mansur Abdul Hakim (2000 Karachi), "bringing up children in Islam" by Ulwan (2004) prohibits chess games and music etc.
- Jugnu Mohsin from "The Friday Times" is against the Hudud-laws
- Pillion passengers on motorcycles commit the most murders => on some islamic feast days riding with an associate in motorcycles is prohibited
- Jaish-e-Mohammed is a islamic organization who first committed assaults on Indians in Kashmir but now kills pakistani Christs and western foreigners
- RAW = indian secret service
- some wear Jinnah-cap made of an unborn lamb fur also in the heat
- celebration of birthday not good in some islamic thought => no celebration of prophets birthday in Saudi Arabia
- every violence in Pakistan is related to religion or/and estate
- many Christians in Pakistan have adopted the name "Masih" from Messiah
- there are only two lawyers in all Pakistan who defend victims of blasphemy laws: Asma Jehangir and Hina Jilani
- the only Pakistani with noble price was Ahmadi Dr. Abdul Salam (Mirzai is a swear word for Ahmadis); Ahmadis are proibited to come to Saudi Arabia
- transvestites (Hijras)
- religious songs (Qawwalis)
- Ramadan can only begin when some special committee (Ruet i hilal) has seen the new moon
- only place in Pakistan to go skiing is Malam Jabba
- best mangos in the south of Sindh
- the selling of an organ is prohibited in islam. Nevertheless many sell one kidney to pay one marriage
- Abdul Qader Khan is the father of the Pakistani atom bomb, who has stolen the know how from Urenco, a british-german-netherlandish company for Uran making; he also sold knowledge to Libyia and Iran
- Some hunt Houbaras (Rebhühner), bcs they think it will make them more potent
- many young boys are forced to work as camel jockeys
- Mohenjo Daro: last ernest research done there in 1965, pumps against salt water were destroyed or stolen by inhabitants
- Balochis think of themselves as being subdued by Panjabis => three wars against the Khans, Sardars and Nawabs of Baluchistan till 1970s (Bhutto used Napalm against his own fellow coresidents; Khan of Khalat and kalabagh thinks it was a mistake to join Pakistan in 1947
- teachers in Madrasas earn 1500 rupies per Month, teachers on state schools 5000 Rupies