KARACHI – A far-right-wing and Islamist Urdu-language newspaper Daily Ummatreferred the Pakistani Aurat March participant’s as “whores” on its frontpage story on April 5.

The story published on Monday morning stated that most of the women wereraped in 14 countries including America, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, Indiaand Bangladesh and other African countries.

The report further described that the “whores” of this annually held socialand political demonstration are unable to see these non-Muslim countrieswhere the sexual assault rates are high.

The offensive language has widely shared on social sites as people slammedthe Karachi-based newspaper for using the derogatory term against women.People are also mentioning All Pakistan Newspapers Society and Council ofPakistan Newspaper Editors to take notice against the newspaper forinsulting remarks.

On the other hand, a private news channel also mentioned that theyapproached the newspaper’s editor, Amjad Irshad, for his comments on this.Irshad however asked them to call later and later, he didn’t get back torespond on the matter.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan HRCP also condemned the use ofunethical language against women. A tweet shared on the official handle ofthe country’s oldest human rights organizations stated “HRCP condemns theuse of unethical and inappropriate language against women in the dailyUmmat.

The newspaper must publish an unconditional apology and refrain from usingsuch language in the future, the tweet further added.

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