Incidents involving deaths, suicides and prolonged suffering affect both women and men due to stigma
PESHAWAR: Abuse of web-based entertainment stages by posting counterfeit pictures and recordings has asserted many lives and compromised people in Pakistan and the new Kohistan occurrence demonstrates the way that hazardous it very well may be for ladies and other weak segments of society, The News revealed Wednesday.
Numerous ladies have gone through awful encounters after their photoshopped or even unique pictures were posted namelessly on Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, or Twitter.
This has brought about serious issues for people or families as well as for the public authority and policing.
There were various occurrences in which ladies and men were killed, a few committed suicides while hundreds needed to languish over years because of disgrace after their photographs and recordings were transferred via web-based entertainment.
A portion of the cases were worked out and the blame held yet the larger part for the episodes couldn't be taken care of appropriately and conveniently by the significant organizations.
Five young ladies from Kohistan lost their lives a long time back after their video became a web sensation via online entertainment in which they were seen applauding as two young men moved.
The issue was taken up by the media and virtual entertainment after which the public authority specialists hurried to the area however it was past the point of no return. Another young lady lost her life in Kolai-Palas (Kohistan) last week after her doctored pictures showed up via online entertainment.
Police said the photograph had been photoshopped and posted on a phony record. Notwithstanding, the young lady in the image was killed before the episode could be examined to discover whether the photograph was phony, etc.
"We have sent the make a difference to the Digital Wrongdoing Wing for additional test and to distinguish individuals behind these records," the territorial cop Hazara Muhammad Ijaz Khan told The News.
Nonetheless, countless cases are shipped off the Digital Wrongdoing Wing consistently. Since the method takes time, lives are lost even before the principal data report is held up or the test is finished.
Families endure as cultural strain continues
Such cases are delicate in the Pashtun society and should be managed as a first concern as they can bring about serious rule of peace and law circumstances.
"A family from rural Peshawar moved toward the Digital Wrongdoing Wing and the Peshawar Police several years back after pictures of one of its female individuals were transferred via virtual entertainment for extorting," a source said while portraying the trial of the family.
The family asked senior authorities to speed up the test and capture the charge as new pages were springing up consistently to add to the embarrassment and mental torment of the family.
Nonetheless, nothing was finished as the pages were being transferred from abroad.
"They stopped one more grievance several months after the fact and moved toward the specialists worried through either persuasive individuals. Nothing was finished for the situation either due to the carelessness or absence of innovation to get to the individual behind the concerned pages that were being transferred from abroad," he added.
After nothing occurred for north of a year and the coercing proceeded, the solitary sibling of the casualty lady, Hussain, couldn't endure the psychological torment and serious self-destruction. The dad of the young lady had passed on a long time back.
There are countless such stories that have occurred in the last numerous years.
"Facebook and other web-based entertainment networks coordinate much when the neighborhood officials view a case in a serious way. They know the significance of human existence however the authorities need to take up the issue in a legitimate manner," said an authority.
