Israr was successful in getting his female audience wrap their dupattas tightly over and across their heads. In fact, western dresses were only allowed to be worn by men and that too by those playing villainous roles. In TV plays women stopped being shown in western dresses or without a dupatta. It was around this time that the government asked all women newscasters to cover their heads with dupattas. This was also the period when various women’s organisations were pouring out onto the streets of Lahore and Karachi to protest against what they thought were the Zia regime’s discriminatory and misogynistic policies and laws against women.īut just when these women were being baton-charged by the cops, women newscasters on TV began appearing with dupattas on their heads and no make-up!Ī woman newscaster reading the news on PTV in 1982. What’s more his irritation in this respect also became the basis for Zia’s Ministry of Information to ask women newscasters, and actresses in TV plays to be ‘modestly dressed’, and with the least amount of make-up. Israr approached his show’s producers and exhibited his irritation at seeing ‘uncovered women’ in the audiences that were selected for his TV lectures. Since hijabs and burqas were not all that common among middle-class women at the time, in 1982 Dr. Israr too began to add moral and political dimensions to what were once strictly academic religious proclamations. Israr delivering lectures on his understanding of the Quran, Hadith and the Shariah.īut, alas, as can be expected from most famous religious personalities (of any faith), Dr. The first season of the show mostly saw Dr. The show became one of the first in Pakistan in which an Islamic scholar would sit in front of an audience and deliver lectures on Islam. In 1981 the state-owned Pakistan television channel, the PTV, was asked by Ziaul Haq himself to give Dr. However, TI’s following began to grow after General Ziaul Haq pulled off a reactionary military coup in July 1977. Israr’s commentaries on the Quran and Hadith with the few followers that it had gathered between 1957 and the late 1970s. The TI functioned as a conventional religious organisation sharing Dr. Israr Ahmed, in 1957 when as a young member of the fundamentalist Jamat-i-Islami (JI) he resigned from the party after it had decided to take part in Pakistan’s mainstream politics. TI is a non-political Islamic organisation that was formed by Islamic scholar, Dr. The anti-Valentine's Day campaign is the brainchild of the cultural wing of an organisation called Tanzeem-e-Islami (TI). An anti-Valentine's Day billboard in Karachi put up by Tanzeem-e-Islami.Ī few days before this year's Valentine's Day, a couple of billboards began appearing in Karachi asking young people to say no to Valentine's Day because it promoted obscenity and contradicted the teachings of Islam.

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