"A Return to Modesty"

Published on February 7, 2005

In Peshawar the youth wing of the political party, Jamaat-i-Islami, has threatened the local government to remove advertising billboards with pictures of women by next week, or they’ll do it themselves. The youth party, known as Shabab-i-Milli, staged a similar, self-declared anti-obscenity campaign in 2003, tearing down many billboards and intimidating the companies that commissioned […]

In Peshawar the youth wing of the political party, Jamaat-i-Islami, has threatened the local government to remove advertising billboards with pictures of women by next week, or they’ll do it themselves. The youth party, known as Shabab-i-Milli, staged a similar, self-declared anti-obscenity campaign in 2003, tearing down many billboards and intimidating the companies that commissioned the ads into avoiding the use of any photographs of women.

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