Surat Woman Comes To Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa To Marry Muslim Man, Sent Back After BJP's Intervention
15 May 2022
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Women From Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, Bound By Socio-Cultural Taboos, Denied
Basic Human Rights
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Number Of Afghan Families Moving To Iran On Rise After Taliban Ban Girls Going
To School
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Hindus & Muslims Together Cremated An 80-Yr-Old Woman In Kulgam. Her Life
Wove The Solace Of Kashmiriyat
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Surat Woman Comes To Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa To Marry Muslim Man, Sent Back
After BJP's Intervention
•
5 Clean Beauty Brands Launched By Arab Women
•
Best-Known Women Writers From Pakistan
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Surat
Woman Comes To Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa To Marry Muslim Man, Sent Back After BJP's
Intervention
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15th
May 2022
By
Express News Service
KADAPA:
A woman, who reached Badvel of Kadapa from Gujarat to marry a person whom she
met on Instagram, was counselled by the police in the presence of the family
members of the two and was sent back. BJP leaders from Gujarat and Delhi
alerted the party leaders in Kadapa who intervened and spoke to the families of
the two in the presence of the police.
As
both families decided not to perform the marriage, the girl left for Gujarat.
According to the police, Miraj (25) from Surat and Sohail (25) from Badvel met
on Instagram three months ago. They
informed their parents about their plans to marry and on Thursday, the girl
along with her family members and a police constable reached Sohail’s house.
Meanwhile,
the BJP leaders from Gujarat and Delhi sought Kadapa BJP president C Yella
Reddy's help over the "disappearance" of a Hindu girl. BJP AP
co-incharge Sunil Deodhar spoke to Badvel Urban CI Venkata Subbaiah, who
convened a meeting with both the parents at the police station on Friday.
Sohail’s
parents informed that they come from a middle-class background and gave their
nod for the marriage based on the interests of Sohail, Miraj and her family
members. The parents of the woman were convinced that she could not live with
Sohail, and convinced their daughter to return home.
Sourse:
New Indian Express
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Women
From Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, Bound By Socio-Cultural Taboos, Denied Basic
Human Rights
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14
May, 2022
Peshawar
[Pakistan], May 14 (ANI): Women from the tribal areas of Pakistan, formerly
governed under the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) agency, face a
life deprived of basic education and healthcare, and bound by socio-cultural
taboos, a media report said.
Women
of this region live under slavery, bound by family traditions and surviving
generational curses, the Daily Times reported, adding, women have to suffer
immensely sometimes at the cost of their life.
The
region is difficult to access by local state authorities due to its volatile
nature and militarized status for decades and even after its merger with the
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the conditions are still the same, the report said
while noting that discrimination against women is ubiquitous all over Pakistan
but the situation of women’s rights in FATA is far worse than in any other
region.
Political
instability has given rise to miserable conditions that could still not be addressed
and resolved. During all the years, no law or regulation of the country was
found applicable in FATA given the prevalence of jirga culture and decisions
made by the elders of the tribe. The archaic tradition upheld oppressive
customs, damaging women’s Islamic and social standing in the affairs affecting
them, the report said.
Dowry
is considered legal in FATA and women are denied access to their share in the
property. A woman is considered her family’s honour whereas the latter is given
the right to sell her and do her trading in exchange for wealth and property,
the report further said.
“Women
risk punishment, even death if the honour of the clan is violated”, Sakeena
Rehman, an Awami National Party (ANP) representative from Mohmand Agency told
Daily Times.
Another
senior member of ANP, Bushra Gohar addressing the women’s rights in FATA said,
“FATA has always been treated as a strategic space where people have been
denied their political rights for 70 years.”
Most
of the schools in FATA got damaged during the Taliban era with their
infrastructure never repaired due to lack of funds and negligence of the
government authorities. Literacy rates in FATA are the lowest throughout the
country. The overall literacy rate here is 19.9 per cent, with the literacy
rate of boys near 34.2 per cent and 5.75 per cent for girls which is below
average.
There
is a dire need to strengthen the health system of FATA by providing basic
health services to its inhabitants especially women who are dependent on men to
survive. The availability of quality medicines, maternal health care units,
child health services, separate female attending rooms, and highly qualified
female doctors should be ensured on an urgent basis, the report said.
Experts
insist the awful status of women’s rights in FATA can only get better if it is
brought in parallel with the other provinces of Pakistan. It is high time the
people of FATA, especially its women, are included in the mainstream society of
Pakistan, giving them equal rights and sources of equal development, the report
concluded.
Sourse:
Theprint
https://theprint.in/world/women-from-pakistans-tribal-areas-denied-basic-human-rights/956409/
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Number
of Afghan families moving to Iran on rise after Taliban ban girls going to
school
May
15, 2022
Source:
Press TV
A
rising number of Afghan families have moved to neighboring Iran after the
Taliban government failed to deliver on its promise to allow girls to
recommence their education at schools following a disgraceful US pullout.
Before
and after the Taliban's return to power following the withdrawal of US troops
from Afghanistan, the group kept telling girls that they would be allowed to attend
schools, but as thousands of teenage girls across the country were prepared to
return to schools on March 23, the decision was reversed.
“They
would look at the girls and say: ‘Go home. Even studying this much should be
enough for you all',” the Middle East Eye quoted Nilofar, a teacher in the
western province of Herat, as saying.
Following
the Taliban’s move, sources, who spoke to the Middle East Eye in Iran's
northeastern city of Mashhad, said that enrollment at schools catering for
Afghan refugees had increased over the last six weeks, particularly for young
girls.
A
principal at one such school said that although education might not be the
primary factor pulling people towards Iran, it was a significant one.
“There
are major issues with insecurity and the economy," the principal, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, said. "But if education isn’t the number
one reason for these families to come here, it’s definitely high up.”
Zainab
Sajadi, the principal at a non-governmental school for Afghan refugees in
Mashhad, told MEE that the enrollment of undocumented students had risen since
the Taliban takeover last summer.
“We
received hundreds of new students. Our classrooms are completely full,” Sajadi
said. “We don’t have enough chairs. Some students stand in class, others have
to share their chairs.”
The
principal added that the school had started to hold three different shifts of
classes a day as 60 percent of the pupils were Afghan girls, with the teachers
doing extra lessons voluntarily and without additional pay.
“They
are the most intelligent students in our school," she told MEE. "I
can see just how much they are starving for education. Even If we keep teaching
three shifts a day and continue enrolling students, there will still be
thousands of other students who will be unable to attend school.”
Afghanistan
has been in turmoil since the Taliban which took power on August 15 last year
amid a chaotic US troop withdrawal from the war-torn country.
Since
then, the country has been the scene of recurrent terrorist attacks, some of
which have been claimed by the Daesh terrorist group, with the Taliban having
failed to bring security to Afghans.
Multiple
bomb blasts targeted Afghan schools last month, leaving dozens of students dead
or injured.
Sourse:
Press TV
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Hindus
& Muslims Together Cremated An 80-yr-old Woman In Kulgam. Her Life Wove the
Solace of Kashmiriyat
MAY
15, 2022
In
the times of grief and despair over the killing of a Kashmir pandit employee,
the Valley found a silver lining as Muslims and Hindus came together to bid a
final adieu to an 80-year-old woman.
Kashmiryat
and Insaniyat, for a while, resided over the despair after the brutal murder of
Rahul Bhat, a clerk, who was gunned down on Thursday by militants inside the
Tehsil office in Chadoora. The police had blamed Lashkar-e-Toiba for the attack
and claimed they killed two foreign terrorists in Bandipore, after they had
travelled to Chadoora to carry out Bhat’s assassination. The 36 year-old
employee, who was working with the Revenue department in the Valley for the
last 11 years met a tragic end; sparking gloom and tension across the country.
On
Saturday, barely two days after the dastardly act, villagers of Yar Khushipora
in South Kashmir district of Kulgam arranged a special funeral of Dulari Bhat,
an 80-year-old Hindu woman who died while attending a marriage of a relative in
a nearby village.
Early
on Saturday morning, she was brought to Y K Pora for cremation. Since a very
few Hindu families put up there, local Muslim youth were tasked to make the
funeral arrangements by the village elders.
They
quickly arranged everything - to fetch pieces of wood to setting up a funeral
pyre, making an open casket to carry the body to the crematorium, petals and
incense - till she was consigned to flames.
Dulari
had gone to Mattan, Anantnag to attend a marriage ceremony of her relatives
when her condition deteriorated and she breathed her last. She was taken to her
native village Y K Pora where scores of her Muslims neighbours waited for her
body. Women lined up in rows near her house with tears in her eyes.
“We
would celebrate festivals and attend marriages together and it never crossed us
we are from different faiths," she said. “Her death is a personal loss to
me and the entire village. I will miss her."
Neighbours
remembered her as a kind and wise person who would help them with chores and
worldly matters. Even the younger women were fond of her and would often turn
up for advise.
“Our
village is called Wakipora and it is know for brotherhood for centuries. Our
great grand fathers have lived together in this village. I and Rinku Bhat, her
younger son, are friends for last 30 years. We share special bond," a
villager was heard saying and added “the village is the best example of bonhomie
and oneness and we are proud of this legacy".
Subhash
Kumar Bhat, Dulari’s son acknowledged the help from the Muslims and said this
is not unusual and people should not get surprised.
“Our
family was in grief but they arranged everything for the cremation. This is how
communities should live," he said. Others said the village ‘holds out hope
to Kashmir at a time when polarisation and negativity has damage the fabric of
the country’.
Village
elders recalled since Dulari’s marriage in the village, she has spent all her
years at Y K Pora, making friends and holding long conversations.
The
Bhats did not leave Kashmir inspite of the killing of Dulari’s husband in the
early 1990s. Over a period of time, the family wounds healed but Dulari never
let it come her way. “Both Muslims and Hindus suffered in the early 90s and she
never grudged against a community," said Chunni Lal, her relative who had
come to participate in the funeral.
The
Kulgam bonhomie comes close on the heels of tragic killing of Rahul Bhat and
series of targeted attacks on the minority members, non-local labourers, police
personnel and politicians.
Kashmiris
of all hues have condemned the incident and staged protests and candlelight
vigils to express solidarity with the Hindus on the selective killings.
The
LG government in Jammu and Kashmir have promised a government job in Jammu to
Bhat’s wife besides bearing the expenses for education for her lone daughter.
The government attached Station House Officer of Chadoora and ordered a probe
by a Special Investigation Team into the killing to assuage the hurt of
Kashmiri Pandits. Employees of the community working in Valley however want the
government to relocate them to Jammu till a foolproof security is entailed for
them.
Sourse:
News18
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5
Clean Beauty Brands Launched By Arab Women
BY
AMRITA SINGH
15-05-2022
Beauty
brands are continually working towards a greener and cleaner industry when it
comes to the consumption of effective skincare, and, in the Middle East, where
natural home skincare remedies have existed for centuries, it seems that Arab
women are setting new industry standards with products that contain only
natural ingredients. These are 5 female led clean beauty brands to get on board
with now…
Sourse:
Abouther
https://www.abouther.com/node/49311/beauty/skincare/5-clean-beauty-brands-launched-arab-women
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Best-Known
Women Writers From Pakistan
Aurangzeb
Wattoo
15
MAY 2022
There
was a time when women writers used to write by using pen names to avoid social
judgments and moral policing in male-dominated Europe and America and some of
the greatest names include Jane Austen, George Eliot and Emily Dickinson who
tried to avoid sexist rebukes from the then traditional western societies. Time
was little changed with the first wave of feminism and finally reaching the
ambitious goal of universal suffragette and Virginia Woolf still had to write A
Room of One's Own (1929) to express the desires and needs of women writers.
This
segregation and castigation have been an intrinsic part of the male-dominated
Postcolonial world and its literature as well where women in Spivak’s words
remained doubly colonized. Pakistani-English literature emerged as a
distinctive field of postcolonial literature in the early decades after the
partition though things seem astonishingly different in this case where women
writers seemed to dominate Pakistani-Anglophone literature. Having predecessors
like Atia Faizi and Surraya Hussain and comrades like Ismat Chughtai and Qurat
ul Ain Haidar in Urdu fiction, Pakistani-Anglophone poets, novelists and
fiction writers have eclipsed their male counterparts. This story of great
success begins with Attia Hossain and getting strength from writers like Bapsi
Sidhwa and Sara Suleri, ascending to new heights with the emergence of Kamila
Shamsie as one of the most prominent faces in 21st-century world literature.
Pakistani writers have explored a wide range of subjects and they have
experimented with all leading genres of fiction including poetry, novels, short
stories and memoirs. Though Pakistani Anglophone women writers have tried to
give a voice to female subjectivity in their works, their literary canvas and
range are not limited to sex and gender issues only. Pakistani women writers
have very successfully tried to meddle with the issues of politics attached to
the female body, partition trauma and its effects upon the collective
consciousness of the nation, displacement and immigration, diasporic experience
and hybridity, identity issues and marginalization, violence and wars, colonial
past and postcolonial present. It requires a very detailed discussion to
include all those names and their contributions in this body of amazing and
versatile literature and this precise article would never be able to encompass
such a gigantic task, I would like to include some of the most inspiring and
influential women writers who have been very strong voices and their voices are
louder and saner than any of their counterparts.
A
Pakistani novelist of Parsi origin, the godmother of Pakistani-English novel,
Bapsi Sidhwa enjoys a very similar stature in Pakistani literature that Jane
Austen occupies in English literature. Bapsi Sidhwa like a lone warrior started
writing novels when Pakistani English novels had a barren landscape. She took
it as a challenge to establish a novel as a distinctive form in her native
country and began her illustrious career with The Crow Eaters in 1978. Her
first novel revolves around the Parsi community and its experiences in Pakistan
though her later novels including Ice-candy Man (1988), The Bride (1983), An
American Brat (1993) and Water (2006) deal with the issues related to
partition, feminism, violence, hybridity, religious fundamentalism migration
and war. Sidhwa continued to write and inspire Pakistani readers in a time when
there wasn’t any strong voice to stand side by side with this wonder woman of
Literature in English. Her popularity doubled with the publication of Ice Candy
Man in India with an alternative title Cracking India (1988) and it was later
adopted as a critically acclaimed Bollywood film.
Sourse:
Out Look India
https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/best-known-women-writers-from-pakistan-news-196822
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