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In the southern Indian state of Karnataka, a 19-year-old girl smiled in front of an angry mob, and now her echo is being heard around the world. While discussions and protests are going on in India, a series of protests has started in different cities of Pakistan for two days. The women's wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami staged a protest in support of the smile, and students from Hafza University are expected to protest on Friday.
Former Jamaat-e-Islami MP Samia Raheel Qazi told the BBC: He is an example of resistance around the world right now. The UN Charter allows everyone to dress as they wish. So why object to a woman wearing hijab? '
He said that he has been running the hijab movement for twenty years. "During this time, we saw a female minister in the 1990s being fired for wearing the hijab," she said. He is now Ambassador to Malaysia. The smile is an example for us, he had no fear in raising his voice for his right.
Samia said that many journalists in India are also supporting the smile which is a 'big thing' and there is little to praise it.
However, there is a section in Pakistan which, while fully supporting smiles, considers the recent slogans of 'Women should wear whatever they want' as a double standard.
A great example of this is the Women's March, where every year women are awarded all sorts of titles for raising slogans like 'My body is my will' and FIRs are registered.
Talking about this, one of the organizers of the Women's March said, "Pakistanis have a very narrow mind and thinking for us. So far, I have been confined to my home for only one play card. I was not abused. But since wearing the hijab reflects our collective thinking, it is being strongly supported.
Speaking on the same double standard, journalist Shiraz Hassan wrote, "Most Pakistani men are praising Muskan for speaking out against Hindutva, but whenever a Pakistani girl shows such courage, she is approached by a crowd of men. Is.'
Similarly, some female users wrote that there is no difference in the courage and enthusiasm of the smile but 'the slogan of the smile is different, my body should not be attached to my will.'
It is still debated because most consumers say that a smile is a girl and that wearing her own clothes is as important as any other girl living in another country.
I would not call the support of smiles in Pakistan a duplicity or a double standard," Raheel said. Pakistan is an Islamic country and the Qur'an says to wear hijab. While men are also forbidden to perform their duty in enforcing hijab.
Analyst and journalist Mehmal Sarfraz said that Pakistanis have double standards because "we like journalist Rana Ayub in India but we do not like Asma Shirazi if we talk like this here. We also have the example of Asma Jahangir.
But he said that the issue of hijab in India is religious as well as political. At the moment, we are seeing a movement against Muslims in India under the Bharatiya Janata Party's agenda. And it is good that everyone is speaking out against it because it is important to speak out against injustice. "
He said that at present the focus of discussion is on dressing up every girl as per her wish, which is the basic right of all. In Pakistan, my body was twisted under the slogan of my will," he said. But its main purpose was that every woman has the right to her body what she wears and what she does not.
Now the question is, why is it that women's clothing is the talk of the world?
There is also the example of France, where Muslim women were banned from wearing the hijab.
Although women have gained freedom and rights in a few countries around the world, they have had to work hard and continue to do so," she said. Even today, the role of women in any kind of conflict is being undermined. And many countries are still operating under the patriarchal system. It will take a long time to change that thinking
