{"id":42304,"date":"2022-03-09T22:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/09\/hijab-marches-compete-with-pakistans-international-womens-day-rallies"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:37:32","slug":"hijab-marches-compete-with-pakistans-international-womens-day-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42304","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hijab marches\u2019 compete with Pakistan\u2019s International Women\u2019s Day rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister says women\u2019s march violates Islamic values, prompting counter-events organised by religious groups<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 veiled women attended marches to promote Islamic values in cities across Pakistan on International Women\u2019s Day in an attempt to counter pro-gender equality rallies.<\/p>\n<p>In Islamabad and Karachi, well-attended \u201chijab marches\u201d, organised by religious groups, competed with those participating in <em>aurat <\/em>\u2013 Urdu for women \u2013 rallies, which call for an end to systemic discrimination in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/09\/hijab-marches-compete-with-pakistans-international-womens-day-rallies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister says women\u2019s march violates Islamic values, prompting counter-events organised by religious groupsMore than 1,000 veiled women attended marches to promote Islamic values in cities across Pakistan on International Women\u2019s Day in an attempt to c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,1200,447,60,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-international-womens-day","category-islam","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304\/revisions\/42305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}