Chairperson of National Commission for Women Takes Notice of Anti-Girls Education Video,
Islamabad/Lahore(Mudassar Iqbal/Webdesk); The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) takes strong exception to a series of videos being circulated on social media platforms in which right-wing clerics have urged parents to pull their daughters out of school on the grounds that schooling is associated with ‘obscenity’. In another video, certain clerics have denounced women’s use of mobile phones on similar grounds. The language used in these videos is not only derogatory but also abusive and potentially an incitement to violence.
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Such deep-seated misogyny must be curtailed at once. With an estimated 12 million girls out of school, widespread cultural restrictions on women’s mobility and an alarmingly high incidence of violence against women and girls, Pakistan cannot afford to give any space to derogatory and anti-women rhetoric.
The state must urgently counter such narratives through strong and consistent public service messages that uphold girls’ right to education—as is their constitutionally protected right under Article 25A—as well as women’s digital rights more generally.
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The Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) has taken notice on viral video by YouTuber Hasan Iqbal Chishti, titled “Othy Dance Kardi Payi Ae,” for its disparaging remarks against girls’ education.
Chairperson of the National Commission for the Status of Women (NCSW), Nilofar Bakhtiar, has taken notice of a video opposing girls’ education circulating on social media.
Nilofar Bakhtiar stated that the viral video by Hassan Iqbal Chishti is intolerable. She called for the strictest action against those responsible for producing and spreading the video containing anti-girls education content.
Bakhtiar urged the FIA’s Cybercrime Wing to bring those responsible to justice and called on the PTA to immediately remove all anti-girls education content from social media platforms.
The NCSW Chairperson emphasized that a permanent ban should be imposed on those broadcasting and promoting content against the fundamental rights of girls and women. She expressed confidence that the Council of Islamic Ideology would also condemn Hassan Iqbal Chishti’s actions, and hoped that religious scholars would disassociate themselves from him.
Bakhtiar added that the release of this video immediately after the conclusion of the National Conference on Women’s Education is concerning. She stressed that the notion of depriving girls and women of their fundamental right to education has no place in religion or the constitution.
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