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Marches have been held in main cities throughout Pakistan since 2018 to convey consideration to girls’s rights. Lahore metropolis authorities cited the “controversial playing cards and banners” which are displayed through the march as the rationale behind the choice. Moreover, the authorities additionally cited safety issues in a notification to march organisers.

“It is a violation of our rights. This raises questions concerning the state’s skill to handle the appropriate to freedom of meeting for each teams,” one organiser for Aurat (girls’s) March in Lahore Hiba Akbar advised AFP. Quite the opposite, Haya March which is organised by the spiritual teams on the identical day has been allowed regardless of the ban on the Aurat March.

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Organisers of the Aurat March in Pakistan have regularly needed to resort to authorized motion to counter makes an attempt to ban it. The Aurat March rallies have previously raised topics equivalent to divorce, sexual harassment and menstruation whereas the organisers have been accused of selling Western, liberal values and disrespecting spiritual and cultural sensitivities in Pakistan.

Slamming the choice, rights group Amnesty Worldwide stated that it “quantities to an illegal and pointless restriction of the appropriate to meeting”. In Islamabad, the Aurat March has been restricted to town park.

“We’re a feminist motion, we won’t be in parks however relatively on the streets,” an announcement by march organisers in Islamabad stated.