The damning state of Pakistan's women

[MenInG]

Local athletes have defied religious groups and the government by participating in the Women Sports Gala in Gilgit-Baltistan.

According to sources, the Women Sports Gala is going on as planned after the participants told the local government that they will take care of the arrangements inside the stadium themselves.

Earlier, the discussions between the government and protesters had reached a successful conclusion after the former assured that outdoor games, like hockey and football, will not take place in the event.

Dilshad Bano, member of Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, has also backed the event.

“The criticism over Sports Gala is unnecessary,” said Bano. “The women of Gilgit-Baltistan have made the country proud on national and international level in different fields and the same goes for sports as well.”

Meanwhile, Minister for Tourism, Sports, Culture and Archeology, and Youth Affairs Gilgit-Baltistan said that “women’s participation in sports as far as they adhere to religious beliefs and cultural norms is not taboo. The painful truth is, we’ve propagated, subordination and unshakable fidelity, as their chief duties. This is wrong. Let them live, let them play”.

Earlier today, The Women Sports Gala in Gilgit-Baltistan had been converted into Meena Bazar after protests by religious parties.

The decision was taken after various religious groups had accused the government of “spreading vulgarity” by organising a sports event for women. They also termed the event “unislamic”.

A religious group had also called for shutter-down strike yesterday in Gilgit-Baltistan against the Sports Gala.

The Gilgit-Baltistan Women Sports Gala was supposed to be the first-ever event of its kind.

In a tweet by Office of the Chief Secretary, Gilgit Baltistan, the Meena Bazar will be in line with “Islamic values and local customs”.

The Meena Bazar, which will be organised on the instructions of Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Khalid Khurshid, will “promote education for women along with participation in business activities and mental health issues”.

During the Meena Bazar, men won’t be allowed to enter the venue, Lalak Jan Stadium, and women police will be deployed as far as security is concerned.

https://www.samaaenglish.tv/news/40...groups-as-they-proceed-with-women-sports-gala

 

[saeedhk]

Local athletes have defied religious groups and the government by participating in the Women Sports Gala in Gilgit-Baltistan.

According to sources, the Women Sports Gala is going on as planned after the participants told the local government that they will take care of the arrangements inside the stadium themselves.

Earlier, the discussions between the government and protesters had reached a successful conclusion after the former assured that outdoor games, like hockey and football, will not take place in the event.

Dilshad Bano, member of Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, has also backed the event.

“The criticism over Sports Gala is unnecessary,” said Bano. “The women of Gilgit-Baltistan have made the country proud on national and international level in different fields and the same goes for sports as well.”

Meanwhile, Minister for Tourism, Sports, Culture and Archeology, and Youth Affairs Gilgit-Baltistan said that “women’s participation in sports as far as they adhere to religious beliefs and cultural norms is not taboo. The painful truth is, we’ve propagated, subordination and unshakable fidelity, as their chief duties. This is wrong. Let them live, let them play”.

Earlier today, The Women Sports Gala in Gilgit-Baltistan had been converted into Meena Bazar after protests by religious parties.

The decision was taken after various religious groups had accused the government of “spreading vulgarity” by organising a sports event for women. They also termed the event “unislamic”.

A religious group had also called for shutter-down strike yesterday in Gilgit-Baltistan against the Sports Gala.

The Gilgit-Baltistan Women Sports Gala was supposed to be the first-ever event of its kind.

In a tweet by Office of the Chief Secretary, Gilgit Baltistan, the Meena Bazar will be in line with “Islamic values and local customs”.

The Meena Bazar, which will be organised on the instructions of Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Khalid Khurshid, will “promote education for women along with participation in business activities and mental health issues”.

During the Meena Bazar, men won’t be allowed to enter the venue, Lalak Jan Stadium, and women police will be deployed as far as security is concerned.

https://www.samaaenglish.tv/news/40...groups-as-they-proceed-with-women-sports-gala

Women in this country do not even have the right to do sports. We have failed our women and our head should hang in shame!

 

[MenInG]

Happy Women's day - Is Pakistan better off in terms of women's rights as compared to last year?

 

[SalimBhai]

I believe there was a small incident with the police and a group of women

 

[sweep_shot]

Women in this country do not even have the right to do sports. We have failed our women and our head should hang in shame!

How?

Pakistan have women's teams. No?

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

Pakistan will forever remain a backward country when it comes to women’s rights. The discourse will go nowhere if you are stuck in this belief that women’s rights were at their absolute best 1400 years ago. This leaves you with no will to improve upon women’s rights. If your ideology revolves around protecting your women by keeping them inside the four walls of your house, then you are creeping towards talibanisation of your society. And in that society, whatever happens to a women outside of the four walls of their houses is blamed on women, and whatever happens inside the four walls becomes the issue of privacy. There is no winning for women.

 

[saeedhk]

How?

Pakistan have women's teams. No?

There was widespread outrage over a woman's sport's day, with hundreds taking to the streets and demanding the event's cancellation.

Yes, Pakistan has women sports teams but generally, women doing sports are seen as vulgar.

 

[Browncaps]

Imported government continues its assault on women.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Your police killed an innocent political worker from an opposition party in Lahore, your police baton charged Aurat Marchers in Islamabad & hurt women and even transgender persons, your police tore dresses of women PTI workers! All on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalWomensDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternationalWomensDay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AuratMarch2023?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AuratMarch2023</a> <a href="https://t.co/eZ3959zqd7">https://t.co/eZ3959zqd7</a></p>— Aurat March - عورت مارچ (@AuratMarchKHI) <a href="https://twitter.com/AuratMarchKHI/status/1633524601610199042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[MenInG]

One good story

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Justice Musarrat Hilali was sworn in as the first woman chief justice of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) — a role she will have until the judicial commission appoints a regular top judge — at a ceremony held at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor House on Saturday.

Administering Justice Hilali’s oath, KP Governor Haji Ghulam Ali congratulated her and conveyed his best wishes to her.

She is a senior puisne judge of the court and will serve in the office until the appointment of a regular chief justice by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan. Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan retired as PHC chief justice on Thursday. Until a chief justice is appointed by the judicial commission, a judge, usually the senior puisne (senior most after the chief justice) steps into the role.

If appointed as regular chief justice, Justice Hilali would be the second female judge to serve on that post in any of the high courts as earlier, Justice Syeda Tahira Safdar was appointed as the chief Justice of Balochistan High Court in 2018.

DAWN