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Imran Khan Led PTI Follows Taliban, Makes Hijab Mandatory For Female Teachers And Students In PoK
Swarajya Staff
Mar 07, 2023, 09:25 AM | Updated 09:25 AM IST
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in the Pak-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) has made it mandatory for female students and teachers at co-education academic institutions of PoK.
A notification to this effect has been issued on the instructions of the PTI government, local media reported.
According to the notification, action will be taken against the head of the institution over violation of the orders, Samaa news reported.
Murtaza Solangi, former DG of Radio Pakistan, has compared the decision of Imran Khan's party led government in PoK with that of the Taliban.
Last year, the Taliban also made it mandatory for females to wear hijab in public in Afghanistan.
Under a decree passed by the Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, any woman who refuses to comply and ignores official warnings to male members of her family could see a male guardian jailed for three days.
The Taliban enforced the all-encompassing burka during their first stint in power in the 1990s.
"First Afghan Taliban broke the “shackles of slavery”, as declared by Taliban Khan and now his great deputy, the PM of AJK, has broken the shackles of slavery," Solangi said.
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