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But I wanted to go a bit deeper, Steve, and to get some context really by exploring the mindset of young Pakistani men and the environmental in which they're nurtured. REEVES: Yeah, that's how out of whack it is. So is this the result, then, Philip? You have young people throwing wads of paper at each other in a park because they think that's the only way to meet each other. INSKEEP: Where it's culturally not approved to date in the way that people do in the West. WAGAS HUSSEIN: (Through interpreter) My family will either kill me or they will kick me out.ĪHMED: That's reality. Wagas Hussein, who's 19, says he'd be in big trouble if his relatives discovered him dating a girl. The young men say they come here because it's very difficult to meet girls anywhere else. REEVES: The person speaking English is Tayeb Ahmed, who's 20. They say that boys like you are causing problems for girls. REEVES: Mohammed Azim, who's 17, is angry about being locked out. MOHAMMED AZIM: (Foreign language spoken). It's family day, the one day in the week when single males are barred from entering the park, and groups of young males are glaring through the gates. And if they don't stop, then we use this, the stick. Today, about 20 guards in high-viz green jackets are roaming around looking for men behaving badly.ĪMIR HUSSAIN: (Through interpreter) First, we tell them politely.

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REEVES: The city authorities have had so many complaints about harassment, they've decided to crack down.

KASHIF NAWAZ: (Through interpreter) To shout, to pass comments, to write their mobile number and throw it in a paper towards women or to tease, to hoot. Park security guard Kashif Nawaz says young men come here. This park's a hotbed of what South Asians call eve-teasing, a euphemism for harassing women.

Ali's monkey's example, though, Steve, has failed to influence many. It struts around looking very refined before giving the crowd of onlookers a very gentlemanly salute. REEVES: The monkey sits down and neatly crosses its legs. He's taught his monkey to pretend to be a gentleman. And it was in that park that I met a man called Ansar Ali who was showing off his pet monkey. So I set off along a road that you know well, Steve, the Grand Trunk Road, to a city a couple of hundred miles away from here called Gujranwala and to a park that's got a big problem with the behavior of young males towards girls and women. And I wanted to explore that angle a little bit. But I think it's very important to try to understand the way men think in this society. The sexual abuse that goes on in South Asia of women is no way justifiable. Men are obviously a huge part of the problem. Much less, though, has been said about men. And we've heard from women over the years about the horror of being the victim of this kind of abuse. And a lot of attention has in fact been given to the effects of that - the trafficking of women and kids for sex, gang rapes and so-called honor killings in South Asia. INSKEEP: So younger people - not just older people - holding this basic underlying attitude that's suggested there that women aren't worth much, that they're property, that just about anything can be done with them. About a sixth of the world's population lives in South Asia and about half of them are under 25. And we're talking about a lot of people, by the way, Steve. REEVES: Well, I think it tells us that attitudes of young people in this region towards sex and relationships between the sexes are profoundly unhealthy in many cases.

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