Remember young Rukhsana Kausar? The teenage girl who turned out to be a real ‘heroin’ after she shot dead a terrorist who came to attack her family?
Singlehandedly, she confronted a group of LeT militants who barged into her house in Kashmir at night, snatched an AK-47 rifle from one of them and shot him at point blank.
While surrounded by scores of reporters, facing flashing cameras at her house in Upper Kalsi in Shahdhara Sharief of Rajouri district, she looked like the embodiment of courage. It was with great pride and satisfaction, Rukhsana flaunted the firearm she snatched from the militant and recounted how she shot the terrorist Abu Osama making others flee for their lives.
My point here is the all over world we require Rukhsanas, at least they can save themselves. The report on how 14-year-old student and activist Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan comes as another grim reminder of how our girls should be mentally and physically equipped with for confronting any such situation. Though Yousafzai could defeat death, she has to live in eternal fear. Even if she leaves Pakistan and migrates to any other country, I don’t think she can live without fear.
In neighboring Afghanistan girls are appalled to go to school. There were at least 185 documented attacks on schools and hospitals in Afghanistan last year, according to the United Nations. The majority were reportedly attributed to armed groups opposed to girls' education.
Razia Jan, founder of a girls' school outside Kabul was quoted by CNN as saying: "People are crazy. The day we opened the school, the other side of town, they threw hand grenades in a girls' school, and 100 girls were killed. "Every day, you hear that somebody's thrown acid at a girl's face ... or they poison their water."
It was not so long ago an Iranian Muslim girl reportedly came under attack in Britain after refusing to remove her hijab amid a new wave of Islamophobia in Western countries.
Last week it was reported that two bearded ultra-conservative men in Egypt attacked four elementary schoolgirls walking down a street eating ice popsicles. The men knocked the popsicles from the girls’ hands and began yelling at them.
They are under attacks everywhere. Let them follow Rukhsana’s footsteps!
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