WorldHijabDay4Sep

Pakistan organizes a World Hijab Day

A Pakistani political party decides to confront the issue of the veil by celebrating it around the world.

Pakistan's Jamaat-i-Islami party has announced that they will be organizing a World Hijab Day on September 4.According to the Express Tribune, the party's leader, Munawar Hasan, explained that the foreign ideas and practices had permeated Pakistan and that the Muslim youth must rise to defend their culture.

Earlier today, Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was heavily criticized for using a Hindi word while speaking to the supreme court. As there were Urdu synonyms for the word, Ashraf's use of the Hindi word, vishvas, which means faith, was taken as symbolic of India and Bollywood's cultural penetration in Pakistan.