by Umar Bacha in Dawn, November 5th, 2023SHANGLA: A number of religious leaders in Lower Kohistan have warned women against working for NGOs, advising locals that if “you come across a woman with an unrelated colleague, you should persuade the two to marry each other”. A group of local ulema, led by Maulana Karimdad, held a meeting at a police station in Pattan on Saturday and said police should help them “enforce our decision” to…
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By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, October 22, 2023Several protesting women demanded the immediate release of Julia Parsi, Neda Parwani, Matiullah Wesa, and Rasoul Parsi, who are currently held captive by the Taliban, in a public statement. The “Women’s Protest Movement for Freedom” considers women and civil activists imprisoned by the Taliban as part of their “repressive policies.” These protesting women gathered at a discreet location in Kabul on Saturday and called on…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, October 22, 2023Several protesting women demanded the immediate release of Julia Parsi, Neda Parwani, Matiullah Wesa, and Rasoul Parsi, who are currently held captive by the Taliban, in a public statement. The “Women’s Protest Movement for Freedom” considers women and civil activists imprisoned by the Taliban as part of their “repressive policies.” These protesting women gathered at a discreet location in Kabul on Saturday and called on…
ByAihtesham Khan/Mahnoor Tahir/Ahsan Jehangir Khan in The Express Tribune, Oct 16, 2023PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: In a country where half the populace consists of women, the issues pertaining to women are often swept under the rug or classified as a family matter, which has resulted in women not only feeling unsafe in the country but also distrusting its criminal justice system. For instance, despite the rise of social media and various feminist and human rights movements…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, October 6, 2023Several immigrant women have reported experiencing mistreatment and, sometimes, even police torture during their brief stays in Pakistan. The Pakistani government’s decision to expel Afghan refugees due to the ongoing mistreatment towards migrants has sparked international condemnation. Recently, reports of mistreatment by the Pakistani police towards migrants have surfaced, and at least three immigrant women, including a journalist, have confirmed that they have experienced mistreatment…
By Shamsurrahman Khpalwak in ToloNews,Oct 4, 2023 at 9:51 PMEighty countries in a joint statement delivered to the UNGA 78th meeting expressed their concern over the violation of women and girls’ rights in Afghanistan. UAE, Australia, Japan, Spain Chile, EU and 74 UN member states and observers- in the statement- have asked the Islamic Emirate to respect women and girls’ rights based on Islamic values and international human rights. In the joint statement, the countries…
by Fazal Khaliq in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023SWAT: A group of Charbagh residents and some prayer leaders on Sunday intervened to halt a women cricket match at Charbagh Cricket Stadium. They said girls participating in cricket was immodest and considered inappropriate in the locality. Ayesha Ayaz, a 12-year-old budding athlete, had taken the initiative to arrange the match among girls hailing from Babuzai and Kabal tehsils. However, before the commencement of game, several prayer leaders…
report in TOLOnews, Sept 30, 2023 at 9:08 PMThe acting minister of higher education, Neda Mohammad Nadim, said in a meeting at Baghlan University that there are now attempts being made to demolish the current system under the pretext of concerns related to women. Nadim added that based on Sharia and Allahs’s decrees, men and women are not equal. He said that despite efforts by Western nations to demonstrate that men and women have equal…
report in TOLOnews, Sept 27, 2023 at 10:30 PMThe head of UNAMA, Roza Otunbayeva, in her briefing to the UN Security Council, said the policies of the current Afghan government that drive the exclusion of women are “unacceptable to the international community.” UNAMA in a statement quoted Otunbayeva as saying that “UNAMA’s human rights efforts are focused on engaging and enabling the de facto authorities to establish an inclusive, responsive system of governance, including policing,…
report in TOLOnews, Sept 14, 2023The acting Minister of Vice and Virtue Mohammad Khalid Hanafi claimed that the rights of women under the Islamic Emirate have not been repressed. He made the remarks in a ceremony introducing the new governor for Badakhshan. Referring to the international community, Hanafi said that they are accusing the Islamic Emirate of violating women’s rights, while they have themselves violated the rights of women. “Those who don’t give heritage to…
Report in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman was arrested on Thursday for allegedly fabricating charges of Quran desecration against some people of her locality. According to an FIR registered by the Tandlianwala City police under Section 211 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 16 of the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance 1960, 21 complainants claimed that the suspect was a drug peddler. When local residents confronted her about this, she…