This probably meant that a large chunk of our people took it upon themselves to put the activities of the page to an end. Today, however, I received a message that the page was in fact removed. So the blame could not lie entirely on them. I do suppose that Facebook probably does not have the time to answer each and every request personally – they probably receive thousands a day. Over the weekend, a large group of my friends and I tried to report the offensive page but were disappointed to receive messages from Facebook saying it did not fall under any violent or sexual content and thus did not violate any of their ‘community standards’.Īlthough initially this message did infuriate me, and I may be in no position to question Facebooks ‘community standards’ but obviously young boys in minimal clothing making suggestive gestures definitely seemed to have met their community standards. The unfortunate irony is that these self-proclaimed descendants of prophets, kings and heroes also have the ability to stoop down to this disgusting level. Everyone in this country believes that he himself is the best and looks down upon others. One thing that is common in all Pakistanis is arrogance. They simply do not hesitate in boasting about their race and ancestry and are quick to criticise, blame and shame others. “…the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” Jonathan Swift was not wrong when he described us humans in these words,
It is scary because pages like this exist today and will probably always exist - as shameful as they may be. It was scary because those kids, those boys, could have been your son, nephew, brother or friend. It showed that not only girls, but even boys are targetted for the sake of such sick pleasure. The fact that such a page existed was eye opening. This page and other similar pages only encourage paedophilic and homosexual behaviour. Yup, you guessed it! Girls are not the only ones upon whom these despicable businesses thrive the market is now offering boys as well and that too ‘in the privacy of your home’. So while earlier our women and homes were not safe, now our brothers and sons are in danger as well.
In a bid to ‘market’ their ‘products’ on the page, each individual photograph is accompanied by a brief description this includes a line stating the characteristics of the boy as ‘beautiful’ and ‘stylish’, and then goes on to encourage those seeking to befriend these boys to register themselves so that they can access the contact numbers of these boys. It is obvious that most of them have been taken from mobile cameras by the boys themselves like selfies. This is followed by dozens of photos of young boys aged around 14-15 years. “Hi friends, u can c the contact numbers of beautiful teen boys.” Alarmed and intrigued, I read the description of the page, One lazy evening, whilst browsing on Facebook, I came across a page called ‘Beautiful Teen Boys of Pakistan’. While female writers – including myself – are more sensitive towards issues of their own gender and tend to write more about the sufferings of women at the hands of men, I recently came across something which shook my entire being. Since our childhood, we have heard a countless number of disturbing stories – stories about little girls beaten to death by angry employers the youngest daughter of a poor farmer being ‘taken’ by a cruel landlord only because her father failed to pay his debts a young boy molested by his teacher in primary school girls traded for money, women raped by beasts in the guise of aamils. There are many evils on this earth and our country has its fair share.