The judgment by Supreme Court Judge is another blow to women's rights. The sons of dead women lose the case against their maternal family.  It’s definitely a problem trying to unravel the Sharia and the laws of the state.

The women are the responsibility of the men in her father’s family. Therefore the sons get remarkably more than their sisters. The logic behind the Sharia law and women getting half of the men’s inheritance, therefore is simple.

Who decides the laws in Sharia law? A group of Islamic scholars come up with the cohesive logical reasons and instruct the locality to live by them from then onwards. Therefore Sharia laws names Fiqh laws legal. But remember that they are different from every other parts of the Muslim world.

The grandsons get up and walk to the court to get their rightful share. But then who is going to talk to their mother for she’s dead. All right fine. Her sons became lawyers and decide to get their rightful share.

Now Judge Bandial who has sisters and who might or might not be asking for their inherent rights.  The supreme court judge maybe therefore in self-defense gives a damaging judgment against the grandsons who are asking for their dead mother’s inheritance, Surely Judge's sisters and daughters, also, sit on a case that catches their interest so that he thinks that he'll send to them this  message to clear off.  In most of the cases the males of the family know how to make a pool in their backyard and drown their daughters and sisters so that they don’t come back asking for their rightful share.  

As always the women links with their families make them weak and it translates into ‘sorry brothers you like your sister, mother, daughter but they are dumb as a post and have never done anything right.  Her sons become a proper example of patriarchy gone awfully wrong. Also she got the facts wrong and died before she can register her complaint in the court. Then there is the Islamic law of witness. One male witness equals two women.

A group of lawyers stride down the hallway of the courthouse. Everyone gathers papers with nothing relevant in them. The crowds part like the Red Sea when a lonely woman wrapped in a dark chador walks towards them. The woman approaches the judge with one a lawyer and a weak case. The judge checks the proof but knows fully well that the woman will never bring the right kind paperwork that’s needed to make a strong case or in that matter any case. Why? Its simple. All the fards are kept with their brothers

She realizes that the case is going to shatter her wonderful, important shelter that she has formed in her father’s family. Her mother and brothers are all against her going to the court to get her rightful share.  Well whoever the woman thinks she is, people who support her aren’t sure that she’ll gain her rightful share. Therefore very few women come forward with their identity in crises to fight for their rightful share in their inheritance.

It’s a patriarchal society; everyone reminds her. She knows that she will never forget that important aspect of the society that she grew in. The system of patriarchy doubles the power of men over the females. The mothers, also, help men to look through the bag of inheritance and take the choicest parcels of lands or all of them for their sons.

The woman is disempowered and told to shut up in every way and every day of her life. Patriarchy tells them they know what they ordered from the menu. But when, for example, the women say where’s my sandwich’ the men refuse to give it to them.

How much of inheritance did you get? The brother refuses to answer any line of questioning and especially that. The land papers are locked up in the metal safe. The reason being that sister might see a discrepancy and call out foul. So he says, “What I tell you, you believe.” As an afterthought he says, “I just got a small morsel you can have it.” He gives her a small bite instead of the full sandwich.

“Why and when did you got to be so selfish,” the sister says, and the brother flies off the handle. With this patriarchal set up, mother keeps on saying that the sister should establish a line of goodwill with her brothers. Then that’s what happens when the sister goes back and searches in her heart patience to bear all the injustices with a great smile on her stiff face.

Similarly in the case grandson who went out to get their inheritance from their uncles failed. They failed because their mother didn’t register her complaint against her father and brothers when alive. The mother was another victim of injustices prevalent against women in Pakistan.