![]() Doing so, I join postcolonial scholars in calling attention to colonial durabilities that shape the knowledges that are not only accepted, but perhaps expected, in a region long cast under a deeply and intimately sexuo-racialised gaze. Subsequently placing DRC in historical context, I highlight eerie resonances of this contemporary emphasis on sexual violence with the country’s colonial past. In this piece, I explore how sexual violence statistics in DRC are produced and consider what they can and cannot convey. Given the challenges of quantifying this sensitive issue, sexual violence statistics are nevertheless imbued with striking, if misleading, reliability. its making as the ‘rape capital of the world’. Statistics depicting the exceptional scale of sexual violence in DRC were core to. ![]() Over the last decade, ‘hard numbers’ have become central to ‘knowing’ sexual violence in conflict, including in DRC. This article examines the production of knowledge about sexual violence in the postcolonial warscape of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with a particular eye on the politics of statistics. Keywords: Saadat Hassan Manto, Tariq Rahman, Khol Do, Bingo, women, sexual violence, wartime rape, feminism, post-colonialism. The writers through their bold writing leave us to ponder over the barbaric behavior towards women not only in everyday life but in war time that too being with the men who are supposed to be protecting them. ![]() Moreover, it explores how different the war-time weapons can be for the both gender binaries through the lens of feminism and post-colonialism. It seeks to explore how women are the victims of the atrocities of war and partition, which make them doubly marginalized largely due to the hegemonic binaries of men and women, and how both of the stories aims to reflect the stigmata of our society regarding the violence and cruel treatment of women since their existence. ![]() This paper aims to compare the two short-stories, Khol Do and Bingo focusing on women and violence, especially the wartime rape that leaves women more vulnerable than before. Both Pakistani writers depict the dilemmas and stigmata of our society and are adept at unveiling the ruthless truths of our society. Khol Do is a short story written by Saadat Hassan Manto, the most significant Indian-Pakistani writer, playwright and a critique who has immensely contributed in Urdu Literature through his writing, while Bingo is written by Tariq Rahman, a Lahore based writer, academic scholar, and a newspaper columnist. ![]()
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