By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Lucknow: The demand for strict punishment to Delhi gang rape victim has got support from a group of Kazkhstan’s teachers and journalists.
Kazkhstan is a nation with a population of 17 million, with 100 literacy rate amongst women and tougher laws against the rapists.
A five member delegation of Kazakhstan, which arrived at Department of Persian, Lucknow University on their five day long visit in Lucknow interacted with newsmen expressing their concern over the Delhi gang rape incident.
Senior teacher, Persian Language and Literature, The Kazakh State Women Pedagogical University, Mukasheva Aisha Abdiganykizi said: “In Kazkhstan, the government remains sensitive over crimes against women especially in rape cases, along with speedy trail the courts provide justice to the victims.”
She shared that if it will be proved that person has committed rape, then harsh punishment of 10-15 years imprisonment was awarded. It was too severe that many a times, the accused dies before completing the awarded imprisonment.
While speaking government’s view on women empowerment, she said women have no restriction in the country over attaining education, doing business and entering politics. Even those orphan girls whose fathers were killed in World War-II are being brought from villages, to provide better education and living.
“Nearly 70 percent of teaching staff in the country are women. Not only this in business sector, they have 50 percent participation while in politics and sports it was 30 and 40 percent respectively,” she added.
Elaborating the fact that Kazkhstan has achieved good position in sports across the globe, Mukasheva said after getting independence from Russia in the year 1991, the governments focused on development of sports and teaching sports was made mandatory in the schools. “With much dedication towards sports, the results were positive and our country bagged number of gold medals in Olympics in the areas of boxing, wrestling and weight lifting,” she added.
The Persian language was one of the three languages spoken in Kazakhstan including Russian and Kazakh and has become job-oriented language for the youths. “After getting freedom, good number people started learning Persian and they got jobs in Embassy, Iranology centres and as translators,” she adds.
Associate Professor, Persian Department, Lucknow University, Gulam Nabi Ahmad said the delegation will stay here for five days and will teach the students about Persian language and about their traditions and culture.
Other member of delegations were Zaikenova Ruda from Kazakh State Women’s Teacher Training University and two journalists including Nussipzhanov Yertay and Almatay Medeu.