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Some Pakistani women have never seen television
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by Sanjay Jha | May 29, 2008 at 09:57 pm
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Pakistan may boast of nuclear Bomb and latest series of missile technologies but in rural Pakistan some women have not seen television in their lifetime.
With the Internet and the telecommunications sector advancing like never before, it is hard to believe that there some parts of Pakistan where people don't even know what a television looks like.
According to the Daily Times, there are two small villages in the Gorakh Hills area, one in the limits of Sindh province and the other in Balochistan, where women have never seen a television.
Nabi Bux, Shah Muhammad, Faqir Muhammad and others belonging to the Arkhani tribe of Baloch are settled on the Sindh side, and they told the Daily Times that they could watch TV, but their women do not.
They said that the men go to an old rest house daily to watch TV but because there is no cable service, they only watch PTV. They can only access the other TV channels whenever they go down to the nearby town of Wahi Pandhi in Dadu District.
According to them, their children do not go school as all schools are out of reach. They bring drinking water from the Hinger stream 12 kilometres down the hill, and they say they need four to five days to get groceries from Wahi Pandhi town.
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at 22:18 on May 29th, 2008
That's almost primitive.
I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 00:35 on May 30th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff. You know Sanjay, with all the crap and violence on TV, perhaps thats a good thing. Good story.
at 02:07 on May 30th, 2008
Pakistan, like some other Asian and African countries, is but a poor country and the tribal areas of Balochistan are pretty primitive. However, I am sure certain cultures within even the 'developed' world have something or the other denied to some of their citizens.
at 03:59 on May 30th, 2008
it is very strange to read this in information age
at 04:21 on May 30th, 2008
Thank God for that Todays television channels have become so competetive that they will show their father in underwear.
hindsight it might be good think.
B.B.C Radio will suffice for them i guess
at 04:30 on May 30th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:43 on May 30th, 2008
i wonder if these Brazilians have never seen television either
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm
makes one wonder if along with 'spreading Democracy' the US/West should add 'Spreading Television' on to its list of legitimate causes for invasions.
at 12:32 on May 30th, 2008
Wow! It is possible to live without TV? How do they know what things to want to own without Oprah?
at 15:41 on May 30th, 2008
Oh I am sure EastVan, Oprah would make a special trip if she thought these women had tons of money to buy her crap.