Groping and verbal harassment is an exasperating reality for women using public transportation in this sprawling capital, where 22 million passengers cram onto subways and buses each day. Some men treat women so badly that the subway system has long had ladies-only cars during rush hour, with police segregating the sexes on the platforms.
But that hasn't helped women forced to rely on packed buses, by far the city's most-used form of public transportation — until this week.
Acting on complaints from women's groups, the city rolled out "ladies only" buses, complete with pink signs in the windshields to wave off the men.
According to the report above, the Mexican's have taken action towards the most prevailing yet largely undisclosed fact of Women harassments throughout the world, by assigning separate mens' and women's buses.
Karachi being a Muslim country, it is very sad that the same sort of mentality exists here, to whom the respect of women and self control is as hard as climbing Mount Everest. Majority of the cases in public transport are left unspoken and hence left unnoticed. Rectification of which is not quite possible in such circumstances.
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