February 18th, 2010
Afghan Women Law that Allows Marital Rape in Afghanistan
Source of this information is CNN: The government in Afghanistan plans to change a legislation that has invited a lot of criticism internationally, that allows the Shia Muslim married women to be raped and not allow them to refuse sexual intercourse with their husbands.
President Hamid Karzai said that he has consulted with the clergy and appropriate changes will be made. The legislation applies only to 20 percent of the Afghan population which constitutes of the Shia Muslims. The 270 pages legislation written by the Shia clergy supports marital rape.
Almost 500 hundred women from all parts of Afghanistan came out to protest the legislation. Women were pelted with stones and cursed, however, the police did nothing much to help. There were around 600 demonstrators who supported the legislation as well.
This legislation has been criticized by US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and even German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Human rights activists have been trying to change this Shia law since a long time. It was one of the most controversial laws in Afghanistan, however, to change for good. Sigh of relief for Shia women.
February 18th, 2010
Pakistani Punjabi Girls Living In Paris
Pakistani Punjabi girls are doing extremely well in college education. According to the majority reports including from the Punjab Board, girls consistently outrank their male complement in the annual exams. From the matriculation, through to F.A./F.Sc and all the way to Masters level, Punjabi girls are regularly out performing male students in almost all land of knowledge.
According to Lubbna (in right) & Ramish beautiful girls from Punjab settled in Paris this may be due to the fact that girls are often more motivated to be independent in a patriarchal, male dominated society like Punjab. This gives them added impetus to perform well in school and college in order to make better careers for themselves.
February 12th, 2010
Pakistan’s Naseem Hamid created history on Monday by becoming the fastest woman of the region when she won the 100-metre sprint gold medal at the South Asian Games.
Pakistani Naseem Hamid becomes fastest woman in South Asia
The 22-year-old from Rawalpindi clocked 11.81seconds, 0.12seconds ahead of Sri Lanka’s Pramila Priyadarshani, to bag her first gold medal before a strong crowd at Bangabandhu National Stadium.
Wearing national green tights, she led the field among the eight runners after her easy qualification for the finals.
“I had forgotten the world for six months and trained really very, very hard under my coach Maqsood Ahmed to achieve this,” Naseem Hamid said.
“It is a great moment for me to have brought glory to the country in my event after the poor showing by our national cricket team and especially since our athletics standards have been poor of late,” she added.
