Thursday, April 28, 2011

Society should discourage rising suicide trend: seminar

Report Zahiruddin

CHITRAL, April 26, 2011: Speakers at a seminar here on Monday asked the society to utilize all social tools to discourage the rising trend of suicide, especially among girls, in Chitral while government should also play its defined role in this connection.

Jointly held by Chitral Press Club and Regional Women Empowerment Project (RWEP) of AKRSP, the theme of the seminar was ‘to ascertain the reasons of suicide among youth and measures to check it’. The members of civil society organizations, religious leaders, academicians and activists of development sector attended the seminar in large number.

The speakers said the frequency of the incidents to commit suicide had gone to a horrendous level in the area and the issue must be tackled on a war footing and the attention of the whole society must be diverted towards it.

They noted that not a single or a few reasons can be cited for the issue but it is multi-faceted and is a complex whole and many factors combine together to lead the young segment of the society to the incidents.

They said many of the young girls commit suicide when they failed to negotiate themselves with the circumstances which are imposed on them against their will because of the prevailing trend that the decision regarding the weaker sex of the society is made by the male.

The speakers also noted that the local society is undergoing the period of transition and the youth folk often find themselves far behind the designated position and this leads them to distortion and deviation from the normal path.

They pointed out the lack of the facilities of psychotherapy in the district headquarters hospital and said that a large number of affected people can be treated and normalize their life routine.

The speakers eulogized the efforts of RWEP for its efforts to ascertain the reasons of suicides in Chitral and raising awareness among the people.

Those who read out their papers included Dr. Inayatullah Faizi, Dr. Gulzar Ahmed, Niaz A Niazi Advocate, Maulana Habibullah and Khateeb Khaliquz Zaman.

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