Students object to universities’ conservative dress codes
Students at two public universities in north-western Pakistan are speaking out against conservative dress codes that ban women from wearing jeans, tights and makeup while requiring men not to wear earrings, torn jeans or shorts, write Anisa Ajmal and Siraj Zaheer for
Radio Mashaal.
The bans are yet another effort at regulating public life in the Muslim country, where some governments and frequent vigilante campaigns attempt to enforce veils, conservative dress codes and gender segregation in the name of following Islam or promoting national identity. Last month, the vice-chancellor of Bacha Khan University, Bashir Ahmad, joined Hazara University, another public institution in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in imposing a sweeping dress code. Official notices on campus told female students to stop wearing jeans, tights, T-shirts, excessive makeup and jewellery, and to stop carrying large handbags. Male students were instructed to s
3 projects approved for Hazara police, says official
National
February 13, 2021
MANSEHRA: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has given approval of three major projects for the Hazara police in order to make its policing more effective and vibrant, a senior official said on Friday.
“The chief minister had given the approval of the police force deployment for the newly created Lower Kohistan and Kolai-Palas districts and the recruiting process will begin soon,” Mir Waiz Niaz, the deputy inspector general of police, told reporters.
The DIG, who visited Mansehra for the first time since assuming his office earlier this month, said that the chief minister also gave the approval of enhancing the Haripur police’s existing strength and traffic wardens for the entire Hazara.
BKUC set to ban jeans, tights for women
Teachers too are not allowed to wear jeans, sandals, earrings, or even wristbands
Bacha Khan University . PHOTO: FILE
CHARSADDA:
Bacha Khan University Charsadda has planned to introduce a new dress code very soon under which female students will be bound to wear scarf with abaya on the university premises.
Jeans, tights, t-shirts, shorts and make-up, as well as jewelry, fancy purse, translucent cloths and high heels, will be forbidden for girls studying in the varsity.
Under the new dress code, boys will be allowed to wear dress pants of blue or black colour, shalwar qameez, coat or jackets. They will not be allowed to wear shorts, cut-off jeans, skintight jeans, sports shoes, jeans or wristbands.
Transgender persons want protection law implemented
National
January 24, 2021
MANSEHRA: Nadra Khan, head of Hazara Transgender Association, has demanded the Police Department to ensure implementation of the protection law, which was passed by the National Assembly for the security of the community in the 2018.
“The attack and killing of the transgender persons have increased in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in order to bring such cases to an end, the Police Department should ensure implementation of the transgender protection law in Hazara and rest of the province,” Nadra Khan told reporters here on Saturday.
She said that the former district police officer Mansehra, Zaibullah Khan, had evolved a code of ethics for the safety of transgender persons in the district, which was yet be enforced.“According to an agreed code of conduct, owners of buildings, where the transgender persons living, would install the closed-circuit cameras,” said Nadra Khan.
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