A senior Punjab government official proposed on Tuesday to make hijab mandatory for female students enrolled in the province's colleges. "We are leaving our religion behind, we are forgetting our ...

Punjab higher education minister Syed Raza Ali Gilani’s proposal to make hijab mandatory for government college girls and offering them “extra” marks for covering themselves up has set off a furore.

In yet another retrogressive step, the government in Punjab province of Pakistan has decided to make ‘hijab’ compulsory for female students enrolled in colleges across the state. According to a report ...

A Christian lady shared her reasons for wearing the hijab, explaining that modesty is a personal choice, and defended her ...

MULTAN: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) demanded on Sunday that hijab should be made compulsory in the Constitution of Pakistan to make it an obligatory element of life for all women. More than 200 women of ...

The ideology of assimilation through securitisation is simply not working The Ofsted hijab debate has created a bit of a maelstrom across the social media-sphere. It has also revealed some of the ...

Hijab is now officially part of school uniform for Muslim girls wanting to wear it, a government circular in Nigeria’s southwest Lagos State said on Tuesday, likely resting years of agitations over ...

MUZAFFARABAD: An order of an “urgent nature”, requiring the heads of the co-educational institutions in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to compulsorily enforce observance of hijab (veil) by female ...

Muslim women for around di world dey celebrate today, February 1, as World Hijab Day. Dem dey use di hastag #Freeinhijab take mark di day. Dem dey use today as special day to tell pipo say dem like ...

The Karnataka government on Monday told the high court that the petitioners in the ‘hijab’ case were not only seeking permission to wear the headscarf but also wanted a declaration that it becomes ...