Imran Khan's statement at OIC meeting criticized

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 Imran Khan's statement at OIC meeting criticized, 'just do not take the slip'

Imran Khan's statement at OIC meeting

There is a series of controversies over the speeches of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Criticism of his controversial statement in October had just ended when another quote from Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech during an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Islamabad on Sunday was shared on social media. Came under discussion and criticism.

The statement was about the concerns of the international community regarding women's education in Afghanistan, in which Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested that the differences between Pashtun culture in rural and urban areas and the sensitivities associated with girls' education should be kept in mind.

The statement was debated in Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan and social media users appeared to be divided into two distinct sections.

There was a section of consumers who felt that Prime Minister Imran Khan's statement was controversial and a denial of the universal right of women to education while on the other hand there were those who argued that criticism of the Prime Minister's statement was baseless. And it was probably a critique of criticism that did not focus on the real purpose of the statement.

What did Prime Minister Imran Khan say in his speech?

The key point of Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech at the OIC special session was to convince the international community that assistance was urgently needed during the current economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

But in the same speech, she spoke about women's education in Afghanistan: "We have to understand that every society is different when it comes to human rights. Human rights and women's rights are viewed differently in every society. Let me give you an example of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan which borders Afghanistan. The culture there is different and similar to Afghanistan because the majority of the Taliban are also Pashtuns and we have a large number of Pashtuns. The culture of urban and rural areas is very different there. As the culture of Kabul city has always been different from the rural areas (of Afghanistan). Similarly, the culture of Peshawar is different from the (Pakistani) districts bordering Afghanistan. Let me give you an example. We provide scholarships to the parents of the girls so that they can send their daughters to school. But if we are not sensitive to the cultural traditions of our tribal districts bordering Afghanistan, then they should not send girls to school despite the benefits. But if we respect their culture, they are willing to send girls to school even without scholarships. So I think when we talk about human rights and women's rights, we have to take into account the sensitivity of the issue. "

'Attempt to sow seeds of division among Afghans'

While there has been a backlash from social media users over Prime Minister Imran Khan's statement, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has also reacted through his Twitter account.

The former Afghan president said in his tweet that "this statement is an attempt to sow discord among the citizens of Afghanistan and is an insult to them."

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he would urge the Pakistani government to refrain from interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs and to represent Afghanistan in international forums and focus only on improving positive relations between the two countries.

Hamid Karzai also objected to the part of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech which claimed that ISIS was active in Afghanistan and a threat to Pakistan.

Zia-ud-Din Yousafzai, the father of Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and a global activist for girls' education, also described Prime Minister Imran Khan's statement as "extremely disappointing".

On Twitter, Zia-ud-Din said that telling the OIC that basic human rights could be compromised for cultural sensitivities was tantamount to normalizing Taliban prejudice in the name of culture, which is shocking.

Some Afghan social media users complained that women's education in Afghanistan has been an important part of society in the past.

Khaliq Ahmad, an Afghan Twitter user, shared a photo of female teachers in Afghanistan and wrote that Prime Minister Imran Khan should have known that there were female teachers in Kandahar in 1959, including his mother.He said,''Afghanistan has been a center of education for thousands of years'.

Another user, Suleiman Sarwari, shared some photos and wrote that the first girls' school in Afghanistan had opened a century ago, while Kabra Noorzai became the first female health minister in 1960. He claimed that there was a time when students from Pakistan, India, China and Iran used to come to study at Kabul University.

What has Prime Minister Imran Khan said wrong?

There was a backlash on social media in response to this criticism. Someone explained the context of the statement, while others said that the critics may not have heard the statement correctly.

Afghan social media user Singer Pekar, in his first reaction, wondered if Prime Minister Imran Khan had really made such a statement, but later clarified with a video of this particular part of the speech that if the original statement was heard. So it is different from the concept presented by the critics and is quite understandable.

''In fact, they said that if we do not take into account the cultural sensitivities of the conservative communities, then they will not send girls to school''.

Pakistani Twitter user Zeb Bilal, in response to Zia-ud-Din Yousafzai's critical response, asked when Prime Minister Imran Khan had spoken of compromising human rights.

He emphasized the need to focus on cultural sensitivities and not to deprive Afghan citizens of humanitarian assistance at this time. Should the world allow Afghans to starve because of the Taliban's obstruction of education?

'Just don't take the slip'

A third aspect of this whole debate was also seen on social media in which the speeches of Prime Minister Imran Khan and the real cause of successive controversies related to them were under discussion.

Analyst and columnist Musharraf Zaidi wrote in his tweet that if detailed explanations of the speeches of the Prime Minister of a country with a population of 22 crore are required, then the problem is not bias but the real issue is that either the Prime Minister says so. Not being able to say what they want to say or they are saying what they want to say.

"In both cases, there is the full support of the people."

''Probably the prime minister wanted to express his desire that at this time not only the urgent need for assistance to Afghan citizens be met, for which a way should be found to work with the Taliban'', According to Musharraf Zaidi.

One user, Aqil Sajjad, suggested that it would have been better if the Prime Minister had limited himself to helping Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds. In response, Ahmed, a social media user, wrote: 'Just don't take the slip'

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