Women's Liberation in Pakistan

RAWALPINDI:

In a first for the garrison city, sixty masked men carrying iron rods barged into a girls’ school in Rawalpindi and thrashed students and female teachers on Friday.

The gang of miscreants also warned the inmates at the MC Model Girls High School in Satellite Town to “dress modestly and wear hijabs” or face the music, eyewitnesses said.

Fear gripped the area following the attack and only 25 of the 400 students studying in the college were present on Saturday. The school employs 30 female teachers.

A police official of the New Town Police Station, asking for anonymity, told The Express Tribune, “We were under strict instructions to do nothing

Link to the story here: http://tribune.com.pk/story/269918/dress-modestly-masked-men-enter-girls-school-thrash-students/

This blog reminds us that Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani Armed Forces, and makes a guess as to what the security forces were doing during the attacks: http://www.neptunuslex.com/2011/10/10/police-is-investigating-the-matter/