LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Aseefa Bhutto Zardari disapproved Punjab Higher Education Minister Raza Ali Gillani’s announcement of awarding five extra marks to women wearing Hijab in college.
Aseefa questioned the decision by asking, what boys will do in such a scenario. She also asked what the students from minorities will do about it. “Why does wearing a Hijab impact grades/marks?” she said in a tweet after a private news channel broke the news regarding Punjab government’s decision.
Punjab Higher Education Minister Syed Raza Ali Gillani announced on Tuesday that government institutions would allot five marks to each of the hijab-wearing female students in a bid to promote the practice.
The provincial government has introduced its policy today to promote hijab-culture in Punjab. Moreover, all teachers in government’s institutions are now required to narrate a Hadith before they begin their lecture.
