R Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Pakistan`s Minister for Health and Refugees, made a strong plea for a joint organisation for the rescue and restoration of abducted women and children.

Armed mobs, in a momentary frenzy, killing one another is at least understandable, but when men, having only the physical attributes of man, systemically subject innocent women to inhuman brutalities and insufferable shame, out of vengeance against the community to which they belong, they put even the lowest animals to shame. In recent months, there has been such a surfeit of human cruelty and atrocity, that any further savagery by people is taken for granted.

We only voice the feelings of every Pakistan Muslim when we say that our State has to make an all-out attempt to get back our women; for the honour of our women is the honour of our State.•