Hide your condoms, Dr. Maria Khan is coming! -by Ammara Ahmad
We need to stand up to these so-called ‘educated’ but otherwise unethical anchors who show up in western dresses, speak confident English but in fact have a very conservative and bigoted agenda.
My name is Dr. Khan and I am a morality terrorist. I drop into massage centers with a microphone and the police following me like a puppy. I am so convinced in my pants that I can single-handedly interrogate people who are apparently running a “sex” centre. Don’t you dare tell me that you don’t know what a pregnancy test is because I am a medical doctor, certified to be rude!
Dr. Maria Khan televised an on-camera raid on a massage centre in Punjab Colony, probably a neighbourhood in Karachi. She was convinced from the first instance that it was a “sex centre” and not a “massage centre.” The anchor kept repeating: “Mujhey pata hai yahaan kya hota hai!” (I know what happens here). Well, everyone knows what happens in a massage center. The simple answer is: massage. And if something more than that happens, how did Dr. Khan find out? Was she inside the room when the ‘illegal’ activities were going on?
Even if the massage centre under Ms Khan’s scrutiny was a brothel, her raid should not have been televised. Revealing the faces and identities of the people present there was highly unethical. Above all, a TV anchor has no moral or legal right to search a house, interrogate people and declare them criminals. This is the job of the police and the courts. The role of the police in this episode needs to be questioned, because actually they were helping her with her illegal activities – i.e. televising privacy.
Khan finds locked bedrooms, regards them as rather suspicious and breaks them open. Firstly, one has to bare some parts of one’s body to get a massage so it is fair to lock the door. Secondly, doors are locked to get some privacy and security. It doesn’t necessarily mean people are having sex inside. Moreover, she didn’t even find anyone in these rooms.
Dr. Khan also discovered alcohol there. Is it is the job of medical doctors and TV anchors to search for alcohol in massage parlors? And can foreigners, like a Chinese lady, not legally buy alcohol in Pakistan? My personal favorite is when Dr. Khan recovered a condom from a bag, tossed it into the Chinese woman’s face and asked: “What is this?” Well, who can answer this question better than a doctor? Furthermore, we should ask Dr. Khan: “What kind of an anchor searches people’s purses and asks them why they have condoms in it?”
Dr. Khan’s Gabbar Singh manifests fully. She loves bossing around and giving orders. She doesn’t even spare the police.
“Kya hu raha hai aisa ju lock lagana para?” (What were you doing that you had to lock the rooms?)
“Inku Pakrey ji!” (Grab her!)
“Inku Uthaye!” (Pick her up!)
“Yeh apku utha kur ley jayengey!” (These guys will pick you up and take you away!)
The last threat Dr. Khan repeats several times. The camera films every face as she arrogantly interrogates. There is no attempt to blur the faces or hide the identity. And then Dr. Khan asks the kid a golden question – “Yahan pur sex hota hai?” (Sex happens here?) Well, how would the kid know? Was she in the rooms? And wasn’t Dr. Khan saying from the very beginning that she knows what happens here? Then why ask the child? Kya yeh khula tizad nahi? (Is this not a contradiction?)
She then harasses a young worker to admit that sex does happen there. I can assure you Dr. Khan, if you push a camera in your own housemaid’s face, intimidate her with your microphone and English, she will also admit to everything you put in her mouth. Khan then takes the liberty to call the girl’s father and asks: “What kind of a father are you, who forces his daughter into prostitution?”
But the girl says she has been working for two days and no one has visited the massage centre during that time. And massage itself isn’t prostitution. So why was it assumed that the girl was a prostitute?
We need to stand up to these so-called ‘educated’ but otherwise unethical anchors who show up in western dresses, speak confident English but in fact have a very conservative and bigoted agenda. Meher Bokhari is another one such case. Most want to become rich and famous by tapping on the popular sentiment- no matter how flawed the sentiment is. The Express Group should be fined for this show, the show and anchor should be removed. Since the producers and the production team planned this intrusive and illegal raid – they should also be fined and tried in the court.
Hopefully, people apply this “massage centre is sex centre” equation to all the massage centers around. The show’s name should be changed from Baat se Baat to Baat ka Batangar.
Source: ViewPoint Online
http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/pakistans-media-police/
Dear uzma
U also seem confused or having some different agenda. I am not advocating Maria’s attempt to take advantage of public sentiment. Her way is wrong and may be her desire is to gain personal fame but the sentiment of keeping the norms in a Muslim country in general is not wrong. If u are so naive (which I doubt you are not) lemme tell u almost 99% Chinese massage centres are brothels. It is duty of police, media , society and politicians to curb them but with a dignified approach. Even if u find someone having sex. He should not be ridiculed or subjected to torture. He must be brought to justice according to Sunnah. Apart from being critic on Maria’s false approach pls do write abt our social evils …..we call our selves Muslims and then drink; this is bi- standard and cheating with Allah and society. Cheating with Allah is between man and HIM but what abt cheating with the society as we declare our selves to be Muslims.
The right to privacy is constitutional norms of Pakistani and non Pakistanis. No television anchor has the right to barge into people’s homes. Maria Khan is a new Slut Anchor in town. who has significantly more sex related raids with people than the majority of society deems fit.(Show Kay Darmiaan Maria Zulfiqar Khan Nay Upnay Tajarbaykar Hathoin Say Upna Pasandeeda Rough Rider condom aysay Uthaya jaysa wo salloin saal upnay ya upnay chanay walion kay ghar kay parday kay peechay istaymaal karte aa rahee hain .Yaad Rahay kay condom rakhna koiee jurum najhee hay warna medical store waly is ko rakhnay kay jurm main rooz ana griftaar hotay) شو کے درمیان ماریا ذولفقار خان نے اپنے تجربےکار ہاتھوں سے اپنا پسندیدہ رف ریڈر کنڈوم ایسا اٹھایا جیسا وہ سالوں سال سے اپنے یا اپنے چاہنے والے کے گھر کے پردے کے پیچھے استعمال کرتی آ رہی ہیں یاد رہے کے کنڈوم کو رکھنا کوئی جرم نہی ہے ورنہ میڈیکل اسٹور والے اس کو رکھنے کے جرم میں روزانہ گرفتار ہوتے
An excellent article. I appreciate your many articles on Pakistan which shed light on social and political matters there.
Dr. Khan and other self-righteous religious extremists, whether Christian or Muslim, get maintain their weak self-esteem in putting others down- in this case Khan makes a huge salary I am sure with her public displays humiliation; it is only step or two away from the Saudi Mutawas (Saudi Arabian morality police)in UAE and KSA.
@Rusty
I honestly never thought I’d ever have a good word to say about the Mutawwaeen, but here goes: to all appearances, they seem to lead the seventh-Century lives as enjoined by (Wahabbist) Sunnah. Hence they may be credited with a grim sort of consistency.
The female in question, on the other hand, is clad, shod and painted like any C-rated TV presenter from some Infidel land. Crassly put, her stock in trade is the sale of her television persona of which the marketing of her sexuality is no mean fraction. If the latter were not the case, why would her Employer not have a middle-aged male in the position she so profitably occupies?
All of this is antithetical to the tenets of Islam, a creed she not only professes to follow but seeks to implement to the hilt where a perceived transgression exists..only the offender is some hapless party other than her own foul self.
One can only hope that certain public-spirited elements will take her to task,together with the production team,for this disgusting spectacle of a TV bimbo arrogating to herself the powers of the Morality Police in a Shariah State.
Time someone told these Tele-Fascists where to get off.
In order to score high ratings our anchors and hosts forgets all rules and regulations and ethical values.
Every channel is broadcasting some type of unique prog to catch the attraction of viewers, in that way they don’t regard any rule which is an alarming situation,
I think in a Muslim society some need to educate our simple people about Massage centers as Nome and let the people be ashamed to go there……..If she is the one who carryout this work why not………
حیرت ہے پاکستان جیسے ملک میں اتنی دیدہ دلیری کے ساتھ بغیر کسی عدالتی حکم کے لوگوں کے گھروں میں گھس کر ان کو ہراساں کیا جا رہا ہے اور الٹا انہی سے لائسنس کا مطالبہ کیا جا رہا ہے .جہاں تک مجھے یاد پڑتا ہے بغیر عدالتی حکم کے کسی شہری کے گھر میں گھسنے کی اجازت دنیا کا کوئی قانون پولیس کو بھی نہیں دیتا .مگر یہاں اندھیر نگری اور چوپٹ راج ہے .
ویسے ہی پاکستان میں کوئی غیر ملکی آنے کو تیار نہیں اور جو بے چارے بھول چوک کر آ جاتے ہیں ان کا جینا بھی حرام کر رکھا ہے .بے چاری چینی عورت کی بے بسی دیکھی نہیں جا رہی تھی .اینکر چائنیز عورت پر تو سوالوں کی بوچھاڑ کرتی رہی مگر چائنیز عورت کو بولنے کا موقعہ تک فراہم نہ کیا .عجب دیس کی عجب کہانی .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnag2SvazBA&feature=youtu.be