report in Pakistan Today, Nov 5, 2023PESHAWAR: A group of clerics in Kohistan on Saturday proclaimed that women working with non-governmental organisations (NGO) would not be allowed to mingle with “na mahram” men in public and that doing so would require them to follow specific directives, contingent upon their marital status. A 12-member group of clerics issued a warning that if a married woman was found accompanying a na mahram — men that women are…
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by Nurul Amin in Prothom Alo, Aug 30, 2023When Md Sohel from Bangshal in Old Dhaka went missing, his daughter Safa was just two months old. Now 10-year-old Safa is a third grader. Many of her classmates go to school holding hands of their fathers, and tell stories of their father to other classroomates. But Safa has no such stories. Instead, she asks her Mother Nilufar Yesmin, where her father is. She wants to go…