Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said, “Women cannot travel alone or go to school and college (alone), this kind of regressive thinking is a threat to Pakistan.” (representative image from Reuters)
The Taliban said on Sunday that women traveling long distances should not be offered transport services if they do not have close male relatives with them.
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Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday attacked the Taliban regime in Afghanistan for its latest “regressive” move to ban women from traveling alone in public places. The Taliban said on Sunday that women traveling long distances should not be offered transport services. , if they do not have any close male relatives with them.
Choudhary wept. “Women cannot travel alone or go to school and college (alone), such regressive thinking is a threat to Pakistan,” the minister said. Afghanistan has been under Taliban rule since 15 August when the Afghan hardline terrorist group ousted the elected people. President Ashraf Ghani’s government and forced them to flee the country and seek refuge in the United Arab Emirates. In many provinces, girls are out of schools and educated women have a poor future.
Chaudhry said that Pakistan should make its own path of progress. He paid tribute to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, saying that Pakistan was created to “preserve and protect the rights of minorities”.
He also said that Jinnah, while clarifying the role of minorities in Pakistan, envisioned a state that has nothing to do with religious matters. He also said that Jinnah never wanted Pakistan to become a religious state, and that his entire lifestyle was different from those who still use his name to make Pakistan a backward country.
Chowdhury said that present-day Pakistan was different from the mind of Jinnah and poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal as it was a product of retrograde thinking which later surfaced and led to the downfall of Pakistan. “This fight (against regressive thinking) is very important for the survival of Pakistan and only by winning it can we or any other country move forward,” he said.
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