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Students in Pak s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa up in arms over imposition of new dress code ANI | Updated: May 20, 2021 23:04 IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], May 20 (ANI): University students across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have termed the provincial government s decision to impose a province-wide dress code as an act of moral policing and question the government s move of imposing this regressive policies.
The students referred to the new dress code as an act of moral policing and claimed that it has been unanimously implemented across the province without taking their views in consideration, reported The Express Tribune.
The provincial Governor, as Vice-Chancellor of the universities, directed educational institutes across the provinces a few months ago to follow a dress code. The code advises women to wear an abaya while forbidding them from donning tight jeans, T-shirts, putting on heavy makeup and jewellery, or carrying heavy bags at educational institutes.
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PESHAWAR:
University students across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa appear to be up in arms over the government’s decision to impose a province-wide dress code.
Referring to it as an act of moral policing, many university students are dead set on opposing the move, which they claim, has been implemented unanimously across the province, without taking their views into consideration.
“This is shameful and incomprehensible. Why is the government policing the universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa?” questions Yusra Khan, a Peshawar-based undergraduate student. She further wonders how the university will implement a decision that goes against the wishes of the students.
The decision by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to impose a province-wide dress code has caused an uproar among university students.
According to the details, the ban on t-shirts, skin-tight jeans, and makeup among other things, has been termed as ‘an act of moral policing’ by the students, and they are unwilling to accept it.
Yusra Khan, a Peshawar-based undergraduate student remarked, “This is shameful and incomprehensible. Why is the government policing the universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa?” She said that it is beyond her comprehension how such a decision that is against the wishes of students can be implemented.
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When provincial governor Shah Farman, who is also the vice chancellor of public sector universities, issued directives to impose dress code policies in educational institutions, most K-P universities were still operating online. Although there was criticism from various student associations and certain rights groups at the time too, it seemed that a majority of students had never expected their institutions to actually pursue the governor’s directives.
However, when Hazara University in Mansehra and later Bacha Khan University in Charsadda issued their notifications enforcing the governor-backed dress code policy in January, it was as if it had triggered a domino effect across the whole province. Soon, several universities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), including Universit