Pakistan: Clerics oppose ladies’s game in Gilgit stadium as a result of it’s used for namaz additionally

On October 1, Pakistan’s girl cricketer Diana Baig known as out Maulana Jalal Abid for opposing ladies’s wearing tournament at Gilgit’s Lalik Jan Stadium positioned in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Reportedly, the Gilgit-Baltistan Ladies Sports activities gala 2022 comprising other wearing occasions, together with Cricket, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, Squash, Desk Tennis and hockey, is scheduled to happen from October 5 in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan area. Diana Baig is a cricketer and footballer from Pakistan. She essentially performs cricket and used to be additionally decided on for a home Soccer staff as there used to be a ‘scarcity of feminine soccer avid gamers’.

In line with Ibex Media Community, Maulana Jalal Abid adverse the scheduled wearing tournament because the venue is the “Eid-Gah for Muslims”. Whilst the bottom is a stadium with the identify Lalak Jan Stadium in Jutial in Gilgit, namaz is carried out at the flooring right through Islamic non secular occasions.

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Moulana Jalal Abid has reportedly condemned the continued sports activities gala for ladies at Gilgit’s Lalik Jan stadium. In line with reviews, the cleric has mentioned that the venue is the “Eid-Gah for Muslims”.#information #ladies #game #womenrights #pakistan #gilgit #faith #imn percent.twitter.com/UQ0BDeLXdH

— Ibex Media Community (@IbexMedianetwrk) September 29, 2022

Diana Baig answered to the reviews and lashed out on the Muslim cleric. She mentioned, “Gilgit has given such a lot of gem stones (women and men) to Pakistan sports activities who proceed to uplift the picture of the rustic with their ability. This flooring is are compatible to host prayers, males’s boxing occasions, cultural dances and the whole thing else however can’t host a ladies’s tournament.”

My query is: why used to be the condemnation now not for the lads’s tournament?

Shouldn’t the gap belong to girls simply up to it belongs to everybody else who lives in Gilgit or can we proceed to reside beneath a rock and faux {that a} girl stepping at the box is a taboo?
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— Diana baig (@baig_diana) October 1, 2022

She added, “My query is: why used to be the condemnation now not for the lads’s tournament? Shouldn’t the gap belong to girls simply up to it belongs to everybody else who lives in Gilgit, or can we proceed to reside beneath a rock and faux {that a} girl stepping at the box is taboo?”

Whilst the sportsperson from Pakistan used to be now not happy by means of the opposition coming from the clerics, a number of Islamists attacked Baig and “schooled” her about Islam.

Twitter consumer Hazxsupremacy mentioned, “a spot the place namaz is carried out shouldn’t be a spot for ladies to play soccer with shorts as much as their thighs and no shawl that is going for males as nicely no game, pageant or any tournament must be performed at a non secular website online.” Replying to him, Baig mentioned, “The venue is known as “Lalik Jan Stadium” it’s now not an Eid-Gah.”

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Twitter consumer Muhammad Taseet Hassan mentioned, “Whether it is in opposition to Islam… it’s flawed. There’s no want of justification. Regardless of a person does it or a girl.”

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An identical opposition to the development used to be marked by means of Anjuman Imamiya Agha Baqir al-Husseini. It used to be shared in feedback by means of a Twitter consumer. Upon investigating the authenticity of the clicking liberate in Urdu, OpIndia discovered that it used to be, if truth be told, true.

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In a press liberate issued by means of the Central Imamia Jamia Masjid Skardu, the group mentioned, “An emergency assembly of Anjuman Imamia Baltistan used to be held beneath the chairmanship of Anjuman Imamiya Agha Baqir al-Husseini.

On this assembly, worry used to be expressed over the reviews by means of the federal government about bringing faculty and college scholars to the bottom within the identify of hockey and cricket within the land of Baltistan and that this act used to be declared because the the Aristocracy, honour and standing of ladies by means of Islam. He’s declared his opponent.

And the GB executive used to be warned that elevating women in Baltistan for Sharia paintings within the identify of the game is totally in opposition to non secular and Islamic teachings and unacceptable for a non secular individual.

Press liberate opposing Ladies Wearing Tournament by means of Central Imamia Jamia Masjid Skardu. Supply: Fb

And as a substitute of enforcing Sharia and Islamic rules in a rustic the place there’s no God however Allah, it’s astonishing to prepare such obscenity methods. Subsequently, the district management is urgently asked to forestall this act.

Spiritual and well-trained households of Baltistan are asked to end up that they’re Islam and Sharia loving other folks by means of fighting their daughters from doing non-shamal acts within the identify of sports activities.” (Translated the use of Fb Translation Products and services)

Gilgit-Baltistan is illegally occupied by means of Pakistan

Gilgit-Baltistan is an Indian territory that has been illegally occupied by means of Pakistan. Situated in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, the adverse neighbouring country has claimed it to be its territory which has been categorically denied by means of India on a number of events. In 2020, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs mentioned Pakistan’s try to deliver subject matter trade to part of the Indian Territory. The observation got here after then Pakistan’s High Minister Imran khan formally introduced the ‘provincial standing’ of Gilgit-Baltistan. He claimed that the verdict used to be taken whilst “retaining in thoughts the UN Safety Council’s solution.”

Then-Professional Spokesperson, Ministry of Exterior Affairs Anurag Srivastava, mentioned, “The Executive of India firmly rejects the try by means of Pakistan to deliver subject matter adjustments to part of Indian Territory, beneath its unlawful and forcible career. I reiterate that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, together with the realm of so-called “Gilgit-Baltistan”, are an integral a part of India by means of distinctive feature of the criminal, entire and irrevocable accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the union of India in 1947.”

The observation additional added that the Executive of Pakistan has no proper to territories illegally and forcibly occupied by means of it. “Such makes an attempt by means of Pakistan, supposed to camouflage its unlawful career, can’t cover the grave human rights violation, exploitation and denial of freedom for over seven a long time to the folk living in those Pakistan-occupied territories. As an alternative of in the hunt for to change the standing of those Indian territories, we name upon Pakistan to in an instant vacate all spaces beneath its unlawful career.”