Whose Islam is it anyway?
In November 2005, the then chief justice of the Peshawar high court, Justice Tariq Pervaiz Khan, ordered women lawyers not to wear veils (burqas) in courtrooms. “You are professionals and should be dressed as required of lawyers,†the chief justice told the veiled lawyer Raees Anjum. Today, that verdict seems to belong to another era. Now that girls’ schools have been bombed out of existence, women forcibly barred from working and barbers’ shops forcibly shut down (...)