World Desk, AnyTV, Islamabad
Published by: Sanjeev Kumar Jha
Updated Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:27 PM IST
Summary
The women’s march in Pakistan was started in 2018. That year also on March 8, women took out processions in different cities and towns of the country. His aim was to draw the attention of the country towards the issues related to women.
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JUI(F) Islamabad branch chief Abdul Majid Hazarvi has said that if any obscenity happened during the women’s march, we will condemn it. Women’s rights activists have pointed out the two-sidedness of the Jamiat in this regard. Hazarvi said these things on the sidelines of the demonstration, which was organized against India’s hijab controversy. Women activists have said that the Jamiat is favoring the right of Muslim women in India to wear hijab on the one hand, and on the other hand is not ready to accept the freedom of Pakistani women.
JUI(F) President Fazlur Rehman is also currently the President of the Pakistan Democratic Alliance, the front of the opposition parties. In this context, his party’s latest stand is likely to raise questions on the entire opposition. Hazarvi said- ‘Obscenity is being spread in the name of women’s rights. We will use batons to stop it.
According to media reports, the women’s march was started in Pakistan in 2018. That year also on March 8, women took out processions in different cities and towns of the country. His aim was to draw the attention of the country towards the issues related to women. Since 2019, the event has come under attack from radical groups. That year in Islamabad, women in a procession were attacked by male students of Jamia Hafsa College. They uprooted the tents of women’s organizations and pelted stones at them.
Last year, a petition was filed in the Lahore Court to ban the Aurat March. But the court rejected them saying that everyone has the right to peaceful assembly under the Constitution of Pakistan.
A report in the newspaper Dawn has been told that this year the ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf first made an issue of Aurat March. Nurul Haq Qadri, Minister of Religious Affairs in the Imran Khan government, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister this week saying that anti-Islamic slogans should be stopped on International Women’s Day. But Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that the government cannot monitor anyone’s thoughts, clothes etc. Also, sanctions should be imposed only where there is a possibility of violence.
Meanwhile, Senator Sherry Rehman of Pakistan People’s Party has said that some politicians are doing negative publicity on this issue. He has also been supported by Maleeha Lodhi, former ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations. Both these figures are considered to be supporters of women’s rights in Pakistan.