Female official under fire for hug
From Times Wire Reports
Islamic clerics at a radical mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, have demanded the tourism minister be fired for hugging a foreign man, saying she committed a “great sin.”
Minister of Tourism Nilofar Bakhtiar rejected the edict and said her family and friends were concerned for her safety.
The demand for her dismissal came two days after the clerics set up a court to deliver Islamic justice, in a bold challenge to President Pervez Musharraf, a U.S. ally who has promised to promote moderate Islam.
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