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Another Pakistan university introduces dress code for girls
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IANS | Mar 6, 2021, 18:02 IST
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ISLAMABAD: The University of Peshawar (UoP) has joined the Hazara University, Abbottabad and Bacha Khan University (BKU), Charsada, in introducing strict dress codes for female students and teachers, banning them from wearing modern attire, a decision that has already raised serious concerns over the conservative approach towards women in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The UoP has introduced a dress code for its students, notifying its female students to wear white overalls with white salwar kameez.
As per the notification, male students have been directed to wear modest clothes with chest cards.
UoP asks female students to wear shalwar qamees
Male students were directed to have modest cloths
University of Peshawar. PHOTO: fb.com/UoP
PESHAWAR:
After the Hazara University, Abbotabad and Bacha Khan University (BKU), Charsadda the University of Peshawar (UoP) has also introduced a dress code for its students asking its female students to wear white overalls with white shalwar qamees.
Male students have been directed to wear modest cloths with chest cards in a notification issued by the Registrar of Peshawar University on March 4 and girl students have been asked to wear white shlawar and qamees of any colour with overall. In order to avoid criticism on social media, there is no mention of tight jeans and shorts or skin fitted jeans for female or male students in the cleverly written order but by a simple notification all these dresses have been effectively banned for girls.
Another Pak varsity introduces dress code for girls
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Islamabad, March 6 : The University of Peshawar (UoP) has joined the Hazara University, Abbottabad and Bacha Khan University (BKU), Charsada, in introducing strict dress codes for female students and teachers, banning them from wearing modern attire, a decision that has already raised serious concerns over the conservative approach towards women in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The UoP has introduced a dress code for its students, notifying its female students to wear white overalls with white salwar kameez.
Mardan students protest raise in fee
Peshawar
February 2, 2021
MARDAN: Hundreds of students of different colleges staged a protest rally against the increase in the BS semester fee by the Abdul Wali Khan University administration.
The rally was staged at Bacha Khan Chowk outside the Government Postgraduate College in Mardan. The rally was led by Abbas Khan, Shabbir Khan, Shahzad Khan, Waqar Swati, Hussain Khan, Yasin Khan, Bacha Khan and other student leaders.
Holding banners inscribed with their demands, the students chanted slogans against the university administration. The angry students blocked the road at Bacha Khan Chowk for traffic for hours.