Female Pakistani Minister Resigns Over Hug

[GraceAbounds]

Female Pakistani Minister Resigns Over Hug

Monday , May 21, 2007


Pakistan’s woman tourism minister tendered her resignation today after hardline Islamic clerics accused her of obscenity for hugging her instructor after a charity parachute jump.

Nilofar Bakhtiar, the Federal Minister for Tourism, was pictured wearing a brightly coloured jumpsuit and hugging her instructor after a tandem jump to raise money for child victims of the earthquake that struck Pakistan in October 2005.
The images provoked the wrath of clerics in Islamabad, who accused Bakhtiar of posing in an obscene manner and violating the Islamic moral norms.
A religious court set up by the clerics at a radical mosque in Islamabad issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against Bakhtiar when the photographs first appeared in local newspapers last month.
They urged the government to punish her and fire her from the Cabinet. Bakhtiar failed to win the support of Cabinet colleagues and the government appeared to cave in to the demands of the militants.
As she announced her intention to resign today, Bakhtiar complained of a campaign of intimidation against her.
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It is like reading how the Pharisees were.

 

[All Else Failed]

Oh the stupidity, and we want to change them. HA.

 

[Boomer]

These people startle me.

 

[Tegan]

And this is why we should withdraw our troops and let them have at each other. We are talking about people who are stuck in the middle ages and are happy about it. Let them have their way, let them live like that. You aren't going to convince people with that mindset that they are wrong.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

baqhahahha i wanna go over there and wear shorts...I'd probably be arrested for pornographically displaying my body. Then when they take me to court for it ill show up completely naked hahahhahahha.

 

[CRZY72004]

well tell me when your court date is I'll be in the front row

 

[All Else Failed]

baqhahahha i wanna go over there and wear shorts...I'd probably be arrested for pornographically displaying my body. Then when they take me to court for it ill show up completely naked hahahhahahha.

Thats probably an offense that will get you the death penalty, no joke.

 

[drb]

at least she wasn't stoned....

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

anyone find it funny that they even HAVE a female minister?