Punjab Minister for Education Murad Raas has requested private schools to make scarves/dupattas and caps compulsory for female and male students respectively. Murad made the request while talking about compulsory Quran classes in schools.
“I have seen in private schools that they are requesting students to brings scarfs and caps [for Quran classes] from home.”
He continued by saying that most private and public schools have scarves/duppatas included in their uniforms. He then requested all private schools make scarves part of their uniform.
صوبائی وزیر برائے سکول ایجوکیشن مراد راس کی پریس کانفرنس
— School Education Department & Government of Pak (@SedCorners) January 17, 2022
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Have a look at the Twitter reactions:
SNC in a nutshell.
— Mehr Husain (@mfhusayn) January 17, 2022
This is what I was afraid of. And yet when I questioned him, I was called 'brown karen'. Nobody who voted for PTI even try to justify this. JUST DON'T. https://t.co/JyHmuP35NL
In other news, Punjab Govt has mandated caps for schoolboys and scarves for schoolgirls. Never a day goes by without them improving quality of education in some way. 🙄
— Hasan Zaidi (@hyzaidi) January 17, 2022
Talking about compulsory Quran classes in schools in Punjab, the provincial education minister said he has requested private schools to make caps and dupatta/scarfs as part of school uniforms. https://t.co/U0xlr1uz4T
— Benazir Shah (@Benazir_Shah) January 17, 2022
🤦🏽♀️ Regression 101 https://t.co/VsmUZiOszJ
— Elaine Alam (@ElaineAlam) January 17, 2022
Last month, Chief Minister Pubjab approved the appointment of 70,000 Arabic teachers for compulsory teaching of the Holy Quran in all schools of Punjab.