Saleema Imtiaz , The First Pakistani Woman Nominated As International Cricket Umpire
New Age Islam News Bureau
15 September 2024
• Saleema Imtiaz , The First Pakistani Woman Nominated As International Cricket Umpire
• Crime Of Being A Woman In Afghanistan: ‘A Taliban Can Knock On Your Door At Night, Rape You, Take You Away And Marry You’
• Barred From Sport, Afghan Women Seek Relief In Secretive Exercise
• Jacobabad Female Polio Worker In Sexual Assault Case, Victim Declared ‘Kari’ By Her Husband
• Mother Sells Taylor Swift's Concert Tickets After Singer Endorses Kamala Harris, Netizens React
• 'I am not a racist': Woman who started Haitian rumour regrets how 'it just exploded'
• 'It’s So Disgusting': Woman Finds Human Tooth Inside Mooncake In China
• Banned By Taliban, Afghan Women’s Voices Increasingly Dismissed Abroad
• Pakistan Board Removes Daily Allowance Of Women Cricketers In National Camps
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Saleema Imtiaz , The First Pakistani Woman Nominated As International Cricket Umpire
Image Source : PCB/ Saleema Imtiaz.
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Sep 15, 2024
ISLAMABAD — Saleema Imtiaz became the first Pakistani woman to be nominated to the ICC international panel of development umpires, the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Sunday.
Imtiaz’s nomination on the panel means she is now eligible to officiate in women’s bilateral international matches and ICC women’s events.
“This isn’t just a win for me, it’s a win for every aspiring female cricketer and umpire in Pakistan,” Imtiaz said in a statement. “I hope my success motivates countless women who dream of making their mark in the sport.
Imtiaz said she had always wanted to make her own name in the field of umpiring ever since her daughter made her international debut against South Africa in 2010.
“My own dream was to represent my country at an international level,” Imtiaz said. “I’ve had opportunities with the Asian Cricket Council, but officiating at the highest level has always been the ultimate goal.”
Imtiaz joined the PCB’s women’s umpires panel in 2008 and has officiated in a number of Asian Cricket Council tournaments over the last three years.
Imtiaz’s first on-field appointment in a bilateral series will see her officiate the three-match T20 series between Pakistan women and South Africa women which begins at Multan from Monday.
Source: Www.Hindustantimes.Com
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Crime Of Being A Woman In Afghanistan: ‘A Taliban Can Knock On Your Door At Night, Rape You, Take You Away And Marry You’
Afghan women sew clothes in a workshop in Kandahar.
Qudratullah Razwan (EFE)
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Beatriz Lecumberri
SEP 15, 2024
“I am very tired and have no energy for anything.” Nahid’s soft, self-conscious voice comes from Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. Nahid is 25, and her name is not Nahid. It is becoming increasingly difficult for Afghan women to trust someone they don’t know to describe their daily life under the Taliban regime. In August 2021, this young woman was working as a hairdresser, but she had to quit after a few weeks to avoid being beaten or arrested by the fundamentalists. “The days go by and nothing changes. I have less and less contact with my friends and now, with these new rules, we are going to be even more isolated. I am even afraid to meet them at a house to talk. I have lost hope of regaining a normal life,” she tells EL PAÍS by phone.
Nahid is referring to the latest edict issued by the fundamentalists, at the end of August, which further oppresses women by banning them from speaking in public, from their faces being seen outside the home, from looking into the eyes of a man who is not a family member, or from leaving the house without a male chaperone.
NGOs, activists, and Afghan women, inside and outside the country, describe these measures as “the final nail in the coffin of women.” Since their return to power on 15 August, 2021, the Taliban have issued more than 100 edicts that have gradually erased the presence of women from the public space. They have closed the doors to education for women aged over 12, an unprecedented restriction in the world, and excluded them from most jobs and places of leisure. They have also severely restricted their movements and their right to receive healthcare and legal assistance.
“Being a woman in Afghanistan today means that you cannot take a cab without a male escort, or that you cannot speak normally to the shopkeeper who sells you food. And if you are a widow, for example, and you have no children or brothers, what do you do? Women are living like criminals, they are deprived of the minimum dignity that human beings deserve,” Fawzia Koofi, a former Afghan parliamentarian who participated in peace talks with the Taliban before 2021, says by phone from the United States.
Recognizing gender apartheid as a crime against humanity would pave the way for accountability both from Afghanistan as a state, and from specific individuals in the country”
Mariam Safi, director of the Development Research and Policy Studies Organisation (DROPS), which conducts surveys and research on human rights in Afghanistan through a network of local collaborators, recalls that this is the first time that these rules — applied in practice by the Taliban since their first period in government (1996-2001) — have been written down in law. “It seems that these new rules have surprised the international community. Not us. We knew that the Taliban would not back down and that we had to be very firm with them. But the United Nations chose to bring them to the negotiating table to speak directly with them about the situation of women. It is clear that it did not work,” she explains to this newspaper in a telephone conversation from Toronto.
When they returned to Kabul in 2021, following the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, the Taliban guaranteed that fundamental freedoms would be respected and said they needed time to create safe environments for women to study and work. The international community wanted to believe them. “But they have been in power for three years, it doesn’t seem likely they are going to leave, and they have not kept their word. Countries that do not officially recognize the Taliban as a government, but do have dealings with them, could demand a timetable. For example: ‘You said you would open secondary schools, so give us a date. You promised to cancel that measure in the medium term, so tell us when that will happen,’” suggests Dorothy Estrada Tanck, who is part of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls.
The Working Group and Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, co-authored the report presented to the Human Rights Council in 2023, in which they concluded that the Taliban regime has established gender apartheid and the persecution of women. In June, Bennett again recommended that this be recognized as a crime against humanity. Last week, the Taliban banned the UN representative from entering Afghanistan. “Recognizing gender apartheid as a crime against humanity would pave the way for accountability both from Afghanistan as a state, and from specific individuals in the country,” stresses Estrada Tanck.
We need to think about who is silencing these women’s voices. We are all doing it, because we are not paying attention to them, even though there is no comparable situation in the world”
Following the publication of the new Taliban edict, a group of Spanish women is collecting signatures to urge the government to go to the International Criminal Court to declare the treatment of Afghan women a crime against humanity. In addition, on September 5, Spanish Socialist MEPs called on the European Union to denounce the latest decisions of the Taliban before international justice, and to clarify the bloc’s role in providing international protection for Afghan women who flee and reach Europe.
“We need to think about who is silencing these women’s voices. We are all doing it, because we are not paying attention to them, even though there is no comparable situation in the world,” says MaríaLópez de la Usada, vice president of Netwomening, one of the organizations that supports the social integration of Afghan women in Spain.
HussniaBakhtiyari, an Afghan prosecutor who has been living in Spain for almost two years, panicked when she called her family in Kabul and, on the other side of the screen, her 18-year-old sister appeared with a black eye. “She didn’t want to tell me what had happened to her, but she ended up telling me that a Taliban hit her in the street because he thought her dress was too short. It reached her ankles, but apparently it wasn’t enough.” Bakhtiyari doesn’t sleep thinking about her two sisters, who remain in Afghanistan.
“What rights do Afghan women have under this new law? Virtually none. Wasn’t it enough that we weren’t allowed to go to university, to our offices, to the hairdresser? But nobody does anything, nobody says anything,” says the 35-year-old, who was part of a group of prosecutors, judges, and lawyers evacuated and welcomed by Spain in January 2023.
DROPS and other NGOs have warned that one of the side effects of women not being able to work or study is forced and child marriages, of girls aged 12 and 13. In addition, fear, lack of future prospects, and poverty dangerously undermine their mental health. Many women live locked up in themselves, barely saying a word. Others suffer from deep depression in total solitude and some resort, in desperation, to taking their own lives. In 2023, DROPS interviewed 2,000 women in 17 Afghan provinces about the psychological damage caused by fundamentalist rules: 68% of those surveyed said they knew a woman in their environment with mental health issues. But mental health remains a taboo subject in a country where going to a psychologist was never well-regarded, and is now impossible for a young woman. “Families hush up problems, cover up suicides,” says Bakhtiyari.
What rights do Afghan women have under this new law? Virtually none. Wasn’t it enough that we weren’t allowed to go to university, to our offices, to the hairdresser?”
Because homes are not a safe place for Afghan women either, NGOs working in the country have detected an increase in violence against women within families, and a general lack of understanding regarding the restriction of their rights. “We have spoken to women in several provinces in recent days, and we feel that they are increasingly afraid. This edict will undoubtedly deepen their psychological problems. They will think twice before leaving home or going to work in the only two sectors where their presence was still tolerated: health and child education. Will their male escort have to speak for them at school, or in the hospital?” asks Safi.
Razea is one of many Afghan women in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, waiting for a country to grant them international protection. These women live in hiding, with hardly any resources, and in fear of being deported. “What did I flee from? In Kandahar, my city, a Taliban can knock on your door at night, rape you, take you by force and marry you. The anguish is hard to imagine. My friends who are still there call me every day, crying” explains the 31-year-old over the phone. She escaped from her country clandestinely by road with her brother more than a year ago and also does not want her real name to be published.
According to the UN, there are around 7.7 million Afghan refugees in Iran and Pakistan, of whom at least 1.6 million arrived after August 2021. The ordeal for women does not end when they leave the country. Organizations supporting Afghan women, such as Netwomening and Afghan Women on the Run, explain that there are women who requested an appointment at the Spanish embassy in Islamabad in 2021 to request asylum, received a number indicating their place in the queue, and are still waiting to be called for a first interview. Between August 2021 and August 2022, that is, in the first year after the return of the Taliban, Spain evacuated 3,900 people from Afghanistan, according to official figures. Since then, they have been arriving in dribs and drabs.
These NGOs help women prepare their request for protection from diplomatic authorities and there are cases that particularly shock them, such as that of a journalist who was refused transfer to Spain because it was decided that she was not in danger. “We have presented an appeal to the embassy itself and we have taken the case to the High Court. We believe that they should re-examine it. The woman is desperate and has threatened to go to the embassy door and commit suicide,” explains López de la Usada.
“The fact that they are women and Afghans at this time should be enough to grant them protection,” says QueraltPuigoriol, a volunteer with Afghan Women on the Run, an organization that has managed to bring 700 Afghan families to Spain, in an interview with this newspaper. “But at the moment Afghanistan is neither an emergency nor a priority. It doesn’t matter what laws the Taliban make,” she adds.
When was the last time there was a major demonstration in Spain to denounce the oppression and harassment suffered by Afghan women? Even long-time activists can’t remember. “We must continue supporting women and their organizations inside and outside Afghanistan, gather strong support for the campaigns and put more pressure on governments, and these on the UN General Assembly and the Security Council. It was achieved in South Africa. It took more than 20 years, though. Hopefully here we won’t have to wait so long,” says Estrada Tanck.
Meanwhile in Kabul, Soraya, a 53-year-old mother who has worked as a teacher for almost 30 years, watches from her home as society crumbles. “I believe that teaching has transformed the lives of many of my students. We cannot become a country where half of the population does not receive education. I hope that the international community will do something to save our society from ignorance,” she tells this newspaper.
Source: English.Elpais.Com
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Barred From Sport, Afghan Women Seek Relief In Secretive Exercise
15 Sep 2024
KABUL, Sept 15, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Most mornings after praying, 25-year-old Sanah joins several women from her neighbourhood in the Afghan capital Kabul for a walk along the main road before it fills with traffic, never jogging or getting too near to the many Taliban checkpoints.
They exercise secretively, and not for competition, but for a modicum of health and peace of mind in a country where the Taliban government have stopped women from playing sports.
"We cannot go near the Taliban checkpoint because they say, 'Why are you outside the house so early? Where are you going? Why do you need to exercise, you don't have to, so don't'," said Sanah, whose name has been changed -- along with all the women interviewed by AFP -- for fear of reprisal.
The Taliban authorities have implemented an austere interpretation of Islamic law, with women bearing the brunt of restrictions that the United Nations has labelled "gender apartheid".
In November 2022, the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice announced women were barred from parks and gyms on the grounds they were not adhering to a dress code that orders them to cover up.
The last time Latifah went to the park near her house, not long after they were permanently closed to women, she said she was forcibly removed, crying anew as she recalls the incident.
"The doctor told me to exercise more because I have high cholesterol and fatty liver, but the Taliban don't let us exercise or go to the gym or walk (freely) outside," she said.
Pressing her thumb and forefinger together on her knees in the yellow dawn light, away from prying eyes on a protected balcony, Sanah says softly, "Take a deep breath".
Forced out of their gym, Rayan and a few fellow women boxers instead visit a friend's home and use what little equipment they have to practise in a society that was already hostile to women in sport, but has now turned draconian.
"We train less, but we never stopped," said the 19-year-old Rayan, watching a video on her phone in which her fists fly in jabs and hooks -- a bittersweet reminder of the avid boxer she once was.
Pulling her headscarf off in a private garden in the Kabul heat, fellow former competitive boxer Bahar said the situation had left her and other Afghan women stressed, exhausted and low.
"But when we box, it pushes all that away for a moment. Even if we only train for a few minutes it makes a big difference," the 20-year-old said, the henna from her recent wedding still staining her hands.
Some still compete on the international stage, including at the recent Paris Olympics, but they come from outside the country and under the flag of the ousted Republic.
"In Afghanistan, girls' sports have been stopped. When girls' sport isn't practised, how can they join the national team?" said Atal Mashwani, spokesman for the Taliban government's sports directorate.
Banafsha, a black belt in the Chinese martial art of wushu, voiced the mixed feelings echoed by others about Afghan women's Olympic participation.
Hasina Hussain Zada, who works for Free to Run, an organisation focused on women's empowerment through sport, said while there is a range of online exercise videos and classes, they can't replace in-person training, being in a team or exercising outdoors.
"We tell our participants to think about it as if it were Covid time," said the 28-year-old, who fled to Canada after the Taliban takeover.
She has worked since 2018 with the non-profit, which is still supporting women in Afghanistan in indoor exercise -- albeit "cautiously and secretly".
"You don't need to think about the Taliban, the rules... just think about it as if it were Covid time when everyone was doing their exercises at home," she said.
Source: Bssnews.Net
https://www.bssnews.net/sports/209729
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Jacobabad Female Polio Worker In Sexual Assault Case Declared ‘Kari’ By Her Husband
Waseem Shamsi
September 15, 2024
SUKKUR: The female polio worker, who was sexually assaulted four days ago in Allah Bakhsh Jakhrani village in Jacobabad, was declared ‘Kari’ by her husband, who drove her out of his home and snatched her three children from her on Saturday after she confirmed in her statement before a judge a day ago that she had been assaulted.
However, the victim’s lawyers Nisar Ahmad Mugheri and Zahid Ali Soomro submitted a petition to the district and sessions court for the recovery of her children and they were reunited with her children on the intervention of the court.
The polio worker told local journalists at the court after reuniting with her children that on Wednesday the suspect abducted her at gunpoint when she was returning after administering polio drops to children in the last house on her list along with her team head. The suspect threatened the team head he would shoot him dead if he followed them, she said.
She said that he took her into a jungle on the edge of the village where three other men were already standing with their faces covered. One of the accomplices filmed her while the suspect sexually assaulted her, she said.
She said that the suspect also subjected her to torture and she still bore its marks on her body. “After the assault, he let me go. I came back to the village but no villager provided me refuge,” she said.
She said that she could only identify the suspect, who was now in police custody, but she could not identify his three accomplices as their faces were completely covered.
She said that after the incident, her husband drove her out of his house and snatched her three innocent daughters from her, who were soon reunited with her on the intervention of the court.
“We are a very low-income family. I work as polio worker and my husband earns his livelihood as transporter of small goods through his hand-cart,” she said.
She appealed to Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to help her and provide her justice as her life had been ruined after the assault incident.
The victim’s counsel Nisar Ahmad Mugheri said that the SSP and the DC had utterly failed to maintain writ of the district administration. He and his team were trying to get sections of Anti-Terrorism Act incorporated in the FIR because “polio poses a serious threat to the lives of innocent children and harassing polio workers is tantamount to terrorism that hampers work of polio vaccination”, he said.
He appealed to the government and social welfare organisations to provide the victim a government job so that she could feed her children. It was not her fault that she had been sexually assaulted at gunpoint, so people of the city including her husband and the victim’s family should stand by her in her difficult time, he said.
Mauladad police produced the suspect in the court of the second additional sessions judge and judicial magistrate, Nisar Ahmed Shar, who remanded him in police custody for seven days.
PPP MPA Sher Mohammad Mugheri demanded that the district administration arrest all the remaining suspects in the case, and promised to financially support the victim every month till she got a government job, according to sources.
Source: Dawn.com
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Mother sells Taylor Swift's concert tickets after singer endorses Kamala Harris, netizens react
Sep 15, 2024
After Taylor Swift's endorsement, vice president Kamala Harris enjoyed all the love she received from every age group except a few, including a mother who put tickets to the pop star’s concert for sale due to the singer's political stance.
Swiftie's mom bought 3 tickets to the pop star's 15 November concert, Toronto leg of the Eras tour, for her daughter's 13 birthday but now she is putting it on sale as she no longer wants to support Swift and her “non-Christian beliefs,” New York Post reported.
Addressing Swift in the video, she said, "My tickets are now up for sale because I don't want to spend another dollar supporting you and your private planes and your non-Christian beliefs."
Praising Republican candidate Donald Trump, the mother said he is the right guy for the president's job. She also slammed "billionaire" Swift for being "out of touch" with everyday Americans' concerns, including non-affordable homes, losing business, and many more.
'Donald Trump is the right guy for the job. If the economy of the United States suffers, the whole world suffers, Taylor. If the whole world suffers, there goes your job and your career because nobody is going to be able to afford going to your concerts,' she added.
"This lady is out to lunch. Does she know Trump is a billionaire and not just Taylor? Of course she had it written out before the debate, she purposely held it until after the debate to not sway people prior to the debate. Taylor has been a Dem forever and knows Trump. Nuff said," a user said on X.
Swift announced her endorsement for Harris shortly after the Tuesday debate, shocking very few who have followed her political leanings in the past.
“I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,” she said in the now widely-seen Instagram post.
Swift's endorsement on Instagram Tuesday night drew a massive response, garnering 10.4 million likes and driving nearly 406,000 people to Vote.gov within 24 hours, according to a US government spokesperson.
Swift’s appeal among young voters, notably her fans, could be a crucial factor, especially as voter registrations among those aged 18-29 have declined in recent months.
Source: Times Of India
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'I am not a racist': Woman who started Haitian rumor regrets how 'it just exploded'
Sep 14, 2024
Springfield's Erika Lee has been traced as the ground zero of the rumor that Haitian immigrants are eating pet cats and dogs. The rumor started from her Facebook post which she did not even expect to reach beyond Springfield. To her surprise, her fourth-hand information reached the presidential debate stage as GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump spouted the theory to blame Joe Biden- Kamala Harris administration's immigration policy.
Erika told NBC News that she is not a racist and regrets that her Facebook post has snowballed into such a massive controversy. "I'm not a racist. Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent," she said adding that her daughter is half- black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community.
What Erika posted was not her first hand knowledge but something that she heard from her neighbor Kimberly Newton. Newton got the story from a friend whose acquaintance apparently had the first hand story.
While Erika Lee's Facebook post became the center of the conspiracy theory, the right-wingers picked a photo of a person carrying ducks and claimed that he was a Haitian immigrant going to eat the geese.
Now it has been established that the photo was not from Springfield but from Columbus, which is also in Ohio. The photographer said he posted the photo on Reddit because he thought it was something that does not happen daily that a man carries dead ducks in his hand.
Now the Ohio Division of Wildfire has confirmed that the man was actually picking up two geese that were hit in a car accident. There was no evidence that the man is an immigrant or Haitian or had plans to eat the geese.
Source: Times Of India
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'It’s so disgusting': Woman finds human tooth inside mooncake in China
Sep 15, 2024
A customer found a human tooth inside a mooncake purchased from a Sam's Club branch in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China. The woman, who shared a video on Douyin, reported the incident to the police, saying that the tooth did not belong to any of her family members. Sam's Club has launched an investigation into the matter.
The mooncake manufacturer, however, claims that it is "impossible to have a tooth mixed in the meat filling." A spokesperson, surnamed Liu, explained that the meat undergoes a thorough mincing process and is checked by an X-ray machine capable of detecting bone fragments.
The manufacturer has provided surveillance footage to Sam's Club and the Changzhou market regulatory department for review, while the relevant government department is also investigating the case.
This incident is not the first food safety issue reported at Sam's Club's mainland stores. In 2022, a woman from Fujian province reported her uncle finding three artificial human teeth in Swiss rolls purchased from the chain, resulting in him breaking his teeth upon biting into them. The store said it would investigate, but no results were ever shared.
Sam's Club, which entered China in 1996, has 49 branches across the mainland and boasts more than 5 million members as of last year. Customers must purchase a membership card for a minimum price of 260 yuan (US$36) per year.
Reactions on Douyin varied, with one user expressing disgust at finding other people's teeth in food. “It’s so disgusting to find other people’s teeth in food."
Another suggested the customer double-check if a family member had lost part of a tooth without realizing it, as "It sometimes does not hurt at all when part of the tooth falls off, so they might not know they've lost it."
Source: Times Of India
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Banned by Taliban, Afghan women’s voices increasingly dismissed abroad
MODASER ISLAMI
September 14, 2024
KABUL: With a new Taliban law banning women from raising their voice in public, female activists in Afghanistan claim they are also being silenced in the West, where their representation is increasingly dismissed.
Regulations issued last month by the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice introduced stricter dress codes for all Afghans, but the restrictions stipulated that women not only cover themselves completely, including the face, but also conceal their voices in public.
“The government has practically ignored the voice of women and is seeking to eliminate as much of the role of women in society as possible,” Haida Akbari, a women rights activist in Kabul, told Arab News.
The rights of Afghan women have been curtailed since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, when US-led forces withdrew after two decades of war following the invasion of the country.
Women and girls have been gradually barred from attending secondary school and university, undertaking most forms of paid employment, and attending public spaces such as public parks or gyms.
Each of the restrictions has spurred condemnation and sparked debate in the West. But while these are aimed at defending the rights of women, they rarely include the voices of those facing the reality of life inside Afghanistan.
In recent discussions on the impact of the new “vice and virtue” law, a Canadian broadcaster sought a comment from a former Afghan minister, a former member of parliament, and a former government official — all living in exile.
Another international media outlet focused its coverage on comments by a male activist, and while it also invited three Afghan women to comment, not one was living in Afghanistan.
“There is no doubt that a woman living inside Afghanistan who wants to continue her life inside the country is very different from someone who is outside the country,” Akbari said.
“Women inside the country want the problem to be solved, but that does not mean welcoming another war in the country ... These issues are not covered in the media.”
Adina Ranjber, director of a women-led organization OTUF, which provides skill development and employment opportunities for women in Afghanistan, said it was important that international forums offer a voice to Afghan women, especially when they were being silenced at home.
“Women’s views and demands in the country are often ignored and suppressed. It seems that there is still a long way to go for Afghan women’s views to be heard and considered. There’s a need for continued support from the international community and the media,” she told Arab News.
“Representation of women from Afghanistan in human rights discussions demonstrates respect for human rights and gender equality. This can help create a more just and equal society for both women and men.”
Ranjber said that it is not only the West that is contributing to the voices of Afghan women being sidelined on international platforms.
“One of the most important factors in the neglect of women in Afghanistan is the silence of Islamic countries and the world Muslim scholars’ unions about the issues of women in Afghanistan,” she said.
“This also gives the Western media an excuse to ignore Afghan women and add to the problem instead of solving anything.”
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2571364/world
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Pakistan board removes daily allowance of women cricketers in national camps
Sep 15, 2024
The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to scrap the daily allowances of women players reporting to national camps. The decision not to give any sort of daily allowances to the players has left many disappointed and upset.
"The players are not being given daily allowances because the board is now providing them with accommodation and three full meals during the day," a PCB official said.
But the players, attending the training camp presently in Multan for the home series against the South Africa women's team, feel that the decision was not just because they had assembled from different parts of the country.
The South African team has already reached Multan and is preparing for the white-ball series from September 17, looked upon as a preparation for the ICC Women's T20 Cup World Cup in the UAE next month.
The interesting thing is that the players of the Pakistan men's team are offered the option of getting two full meals in a day and accommodation and a daily allowance.
The decision to change the policy comes at a time when the board is spending millions on various other projects including 5 million rupees monthly salaries to five mentors of the teams in the ongoing Champions Cup in Faisalabad.
The board is also spending around 12.8 billion on the renovation of three Test venues in the country ahead of the Champions Trophy early next year.
"What difference of a few lakh rupees will make to the board is anybody's guess, but it has potential to create discontent in women's cricket," a former Pakistan player said.
The women players are also still waiting for the board to announce their central contracts for the fiscal year which has already been delayed by more than a month.
Source: www.indiatoday.in
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