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Social media outrage as Pakistani official buys burqas for students

[PESHAWAR] Pakistani social media was fuming Monday after pictures showing girls in burqas bought for them by local authorities went viral, igniting anger in a deeply patriarchal country where...

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Sri Lanka bans face veils after attacks by Islamist militants

[COLOMBO] Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by Islamist militants.

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