Pakistan Newborns Dumped

[fender62]

it makes for hard reading considering were in the 21 century, what a primitive culture and what is their government doing about it, read the bit about the imam...shocking
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5678025/Hundreds-dead-newborn-girls-dumped-garbage-piles-Pakistan-year.html

[chrissa1]

Absolutely horrendous! This was first heard of in China, many years ago but, Pakistan?? Awful.

[cassa333]

It's so sad that in this day and age where we think ourselves so enlightened and all encompassing that babies are still being killed for being female.

It is poverty that drives this thinking and behaviour.

One wonders where governments priorities lay.

India on the one hand gets aid and benefits from us and probably other countries to help alleviate poverty and suffering yet it spends vast amounts of money on a space programme.

We should not be giving aid to a country that doesn't help its own population.

[emmie]

poverty and ignorance leads to this, absolutely horrendous.

[NoMercy]

It makes you wonder if these animals can ever become civilised.

Jesus, even a rat protects its young!

[ToraToraTora]

Dam savages.

[naomi24]

Why is anyone surprised?

[Cloverjo]

Horrendous. Stoning a baby to death? Oh my god, unbelievable.

[anotheoldgit]

Absolutely disgusting, and these are the cultures that we import into our civilised country.

[Cloverjo]

AOG. No we don't. Are there piles of dead baby girls in Bolton? No.

[youngmafbog]

There are major cultural differences between Western Countries and these countries that are living effectively in a manner of a few centuries back here. This is why mutli culturism has so many problems here.

It's very difficult to get ones head round this if living in the West but at the same time I am not a believer in the West interfering in another Countries culture. Al we can do is try to talk, diplomatically, to their Governments but remember they too are very limited as these centuries old practices are still in abundance especially in remote villages etc and those people are not about to change.

[youngmafbog]

Cloverjo, yes we do and yes barbaric practices do happen here but they are small in number and can generally be dealt with by the authorities (if they get to hear of it).

[naomi24]

Cloverjo, no, there are not piles of dead baby girls in Bolton, but aog is right. People don't change their ideas the minute their feet touch our shores.

[Cloverjo]

They need education, especially girls. We westerners should do all we can to give those girls an education. This barbaric practice would come to an end.

[ToraToraTora]

I love this comment: "We have been dealing with such cases for years and there are a few such incidents which shook our souls as much. It left us wondering whether our society is heading back to primitive age." - BACK? PMSL!

[Cloverjo]

So you think most Pakistanis who have had the nous to come to this country are in favour of killing baby girls?

[youngmafbog]

Why have you used the word MOST?

MOST dont in Pakistan and MOST dont here.

But there are those that do yes.

[youngmafbog]

"They need education, especially girls."

I am not sure you really understand the culture out there, especially in the more religiously and remote areas. It is highly unlikely girls woudl ever be allowed an education, the elders would stop it their culture is so ingrained in them.

[naomi24]

Cloverjo, //We westerners should do all we can to give those girls an education.//

That’s assuming that no one takes a pot shot at them – as they did with Malala Yousafzai.

[anotheoldgit]

Cloverjo
/// They need education, especially girls. We westerners should do all we can to give those girls an education. This barbaric practice would come to an end. ///

It is not the girls who are committing these atrocities, how would giving these girls an education put an end to this vile practice? The poor baby girls are slaughtered before they can receive an education.

[sp1814]

AOG

I read it as the girls giving birth, as opposed to the babies.

But I don’t think educating women in Pakistan will work. It’s a societal issue, something that China went through a few years ago (none of us will forget that video of Wáng Yu, right?).

In countries which have population issues and where boys are valued more than girls, these horrors will continue to happen. God only knows what the answer is.