Psychosocial and Geographic Aspects
Why a sex worker is forced to sell her body for earning? In more developed countries this has become an organized industry and hundred thousands of websites are available for cyber sex, porno, matching, dates etc. But in a third world country like Pakistan has some other values and demands of society. It is believed the most grimy hatred and a grievous sin in the society. It is not considered as a type of work but a condemned crime that is culpable, stone to death. It is not a luxurious entertainment at all but it is done just to carry the basic needs of the sex workers and their family. There is no honour of lower cast in Pakistan. The women of the lower cast usually sexually abused and the poor workers have no any power even to report the police. If media raise any rape report, then sometime the action is taken but due to flaws in jurisdiction System of Pakistan neutralize the sex about cases to release the debauched persons. It is also seen that the influential personalities threat the victims and the case is dismissed or taken back. So the domestic workers mostly raped by the elders of the houses. Due to lack of Law implementation and social difference and discriminations most of the low cast girls are raped by the neighbors. Electronic media also fascinate the world of glamour and a girl eloped with prince of their heart and then soled to pimp who further use them for their own earnings. In this stage, the woman can not go again at home because the parents never except them again and tried to hide this incident. The male remain innocent and there is not practical law that can hurt him.( Rauf, 1988). If such case is noticed by the police then the FIR is written in such a way that the female side is proved culprit and sentenced to jail. In Pakistani Jail even rape case is adversely victimized the women and the culpable proved blameless again. Once a women is blamed as prostitution of raped then she will not able to get dignity in the society. She always become suspicious and hatred. In these circumstances it is very difficult for her to escape from her profession. The higher class sex workers have affiliation with organized groups of pimps who have special perch in posh areas in collaboration of local police station. Now, a new trend is also coming to very cheap acquisition of cellular phone. It also enhance the sex worker activities. There is no any kind of security registration for these sex workers. Higher class sex workers have very less problems because they have relationship with highly influential personalities. But the roadside sex workers are help less in all cases. Even if they murdered, no one will peruse their case due to blemish risk of illegal relationship to her. There is no rule and regulation or NGO’s working for these sex workers. They have strive for their own survival in the most risky environment. 34 % among total respondents admit that their parents or family knows their kind of profession.

Hidden Threats
Although in our sampling only 8 sex workers out of 280 admit that they suffer one two time from hepatitis and the remaining strongly acknowledge any type of disease they have. But their pale and withering faces in highly masking of cheap cosmetics depicting an other story of hidden dangerous reality. Only 3% forced their clients to use condom and only 0.5% client use condom or take any other precautionary measures. There is no restriction of client or sex worker in their activities. Some sex workers reveal that some of their co-workers died due to unknown disease. 68% of sex workers are familiar with the name of AIDS/HIV. But 72% among these do no give importance to this disease because their basic need is to earn some money to run the expenses of the their family for the current day without any saving. Officially it is announced only 246 people, 215 men and 31 women, found to have contracted AIDS in Pakistan.(GOP, Ministry of Heath 2004) but they also explore that are more than 90,000 unregistered HIV and AIDS patients in Pakistan.

On the other hand, an exposition of National AIDS Control Programme National report there are currently 235 registered cases of HIV and 1,785 reported cases of AIDS in Pakistan. Government officials claim 70,000 to 80,0000 unregistered HIV and AIDS patients live in the country. Though no one can make authentic claims about the number of unregistered AIDS patients in Pakistan, they have some indications that there has been an increase in the recent past. Pakistan has a narrow window of opportunity to prevent a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic. While the HIV/AIDS burden is still low. However, Pakistan’s many competing needs (including provision of basic social services and debt servicing and drug control expenditures) have made resource mobilization for HIV/AIDS difficult.(UNAID)

What is role of roadside sex workers in spreading HIV in the Lahore city, it is quite difficult to probe the ground realities. But it can be assumed a dormant time bomb of HIV that can explode at any time to demolish and effect the a huge population. If a person got HIV Positive, he is treated a curse of God and sever hate him/her and even to touch him/her. The people think that an HIV positive person got this disease due to illegal relationship with other human. They don’t bother to know the reality and other causes of this disease. So if a person found a disease in him, he never share his disease to his family or relative or friends due to enmity reaction from them. In this way, a person embrace death very shortly due to agonizing mental torture by carrying this disease. There are many scheme like “Nizam –e-Zakat” an official department to distribute a fix amount to destitute like old ,divorced, poor students, needy families but this amount is so small that no one can live with this amount in an honorable way. So, these sex workers have to take support of fornication business.

Conclusion
No doubt, adultery business in a society like Pakistan is very condemned activity but we cannot close over eyes from the ground realities. Our hypocritical and hatred behavior against the deprived and forced sex workers never let them adjust or mix up in the society. Poverty and male dominant society, pull the women to sell their body not for enjoyment but to earn for her and their family. Even employed in different organization and shops do this job part time. The discrimination in society on the basis of cast and class, also make a push factors for women to adopt this filthy profession. The cause of unemployment and insecure future and continuously increasing inflation rate and surge of basic need also add the factors to adopt this kind of job. The roads of city are full of this depressed class of sex workers who are deliberately ignored the facts that are deteriorating moral values of society. Also, unfriendly behaviour of common people against sex workers and HIV patients is add an explosive spread of this disease. One of the most risk still stand in roadside sex workers due to not giving them importance by different welfare organizations. Hence, they are the most easy carrier of different diseases including hepatitis AIDS/HIV, and other epidemic diseases. Once a sex worker is declared as a prostitute, then they never be able to mix up as an honored women in the society. No one marry with her and no will like to help her. Even jurisdiction system do no favour her and she have to remain in this heap of rubbish zone. Although, roadside sex workers do very precautionary measures and cover a long distance to hide themselves from their known person but even then they exposed and then have to change their dwellings. If a law is forced to eliminate any evil in the society, then it is exploited by the law enforcing agencies and a new door is open for more corruption.

Suggestions

• Need for change in Hadood Ordinance and promulgation of strict laws for adultery and rape equally treated to the gender
• The awareness about epidemics like Hepatitis and AIDS/HIV should be familiarize upto lower class.
• Strive for the friendly behaviour for the AIDS/HIV patients.
• Roadside workers should be helped like destitute and NGO’s should also take a step to enhance their living standard and earning to progress home industry.
• Use of condom and other precautionary measures should be forced to adopt by road sex workers with the help of female volunteers of NGO’s in a very friendly environment.
• Roadside sex workers should also be treated like drug addicted and seeking the way to eliminate this evil.
• The system of “Zakat” should be organized in such a way, that every needy person meet their at least basic needs. But they should not given the fixed money only but according to the family size and dependents. At government level many technical institute can be established to make these sex workers, valuable citizen of the country.
• The religious scholar can play a positive role for those sex workers who are single or divorced to arrange marriage for them.
• The law enforcement agencies should be vary careful to discriminate between sex workers and victim. The sex workers should be pursued for any alternative practical jobs.
• Focus the problem from its root level and endeavor to settle it amicably.
• A model work for rehabilitation of roadside sexd workers Equioed with GIS tools should be implemented in a small area of sex workers population thatcan be applied to other region of country.

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