President of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Islamabad has warned to stop the Aurat March, to be held in all over the country every year on International Women’s Day celebrated on 8th of March. He threatened to stop the march with the use “stick”
“If there are attempts made for obscenity on 8th of March in Islamabad, we will condemn it ”, warned Abdul Majeed Hazarvi, the head of JUI-F’s Islamabad wing, addressing a held rally in the capital’s D-Chowk in connection with The row of the hijab of India.
He warned the government that if the march is allowed, “we will [use] witness to stop him “.
Hazarvi said that during the Aurat March, “obscenity spreads in the name of womendiritti “.
The latest pulled against the event from the JUI-F comes just the next day, Religious Affairs Minister Noorul Haq Qadri wrote a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan, stating that anti-Islamic slogans should don’t be relieved on International women’s day.
The minister I had also he suggested celebrating International Hijab Day instead on 8th of March, in an effort to express solidarity with Mussulman women across the globe.
After the letter he attracted criticism on social media in particular by the PPP senator Sherry Rehman and the Pakistani one former United Nations Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi Qadri released a clarification stating that some political leaders were trying to spread negative propaganda without reading his letter.
At the JUI-F demonstration, MNA Shahida Akhtar Ali, who directs the party’S women wing, also spoke of the growing dispute over the hijab in India.
The issue grabbed the headlines last month after a government-run school in Indian Karanartaka excluded students wearing hijab from entering classrooms, sparking protests outside the school gate. More schools in the state followed with similar bansconstructing the state supreme court a intervene.
The issue further intensified when a video of a student dressed hijabMuskan Khan, disturbed and mocked by a crowd of Hindutva supporters in Karnataka emerged on social media.
“We pay tribute to Muskan Khan “, said Ali at today’s demonstration, condemning” the hatred directed at Muslims in India”.
She complained that the hijab was being targeted in India, adding that “we have all gathered here today… to turn up voice for hijab.
“The hijab is our pride, our honor,” he said. “As Muslims, it is mandatory us respect the hijab.
Ali asked because the question had significance for the whole Muslim umma, it should be relieved in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Opposition to the hijab said in India was in reality “propaganda against Islam, and we will continue to stand up for sanctity and honor of hijab “.
JUI-F general secretary Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri said: “India has been exposed as its constitution and rights are violated. of trampled minorities “.
He criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and “extremist groups” in India, deploring the “silence of human rights organizations ” on the question.
Haideri also requested that the OIC should play his role and turn up voice against the atrocities in India”.
It is pertinent to note that Aurat March, that was first held in Karachi in 2018, is now organized in numerous other cities in all over the country on March 8 each year to celebrate International Women’s Day and highlight problems women face in Pakistan.
The march was also the subject of criticism in precedence, in particular for the slogans and signs raised during it. In 2019, the march participants in the capital has fallen attack when Jamia Hafsa’s male students took down their tent and threw stones at them.
Past year appeals where filed in ask the high courts of Islamabad and Lahore for a ban on the march. But these petitions were rejected, with courts stating that the right to assemble peacefully was guaranteed in the Constitution.
