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purdah

Seclusion of women practised by some Islamic and Hindu peoples. It had begun to disappear with the adoption of Western culture, but the fundamentalism of the 1980s revived it; for example, the wearing of the chador (an all-enveloping black mantle) in Iran.

The Koran actually enjoins only ‘modesty’ in dress.
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He said that lining innocent and otherwise needful women, who generally observed purdah, was a shameless disregard of their modesty, while the government can easily plan convenient strategy with rich and charitable elements for a streamlined distribution of free commodities for masses.
President Zardari should abandon his foreign tours in view of 18 ... by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
He said that lining innocent and otherwise needful women, who generally observed purdah, was a shameless disregard of their modesty, while the government can easily plan convenient strategy with rich and charitable elements for a streamlined distribution of free commodities for masses.
President Zardari should abandon his foreign tours in view of 18 ... by The Frontier Star (Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan)
Becoming his third wife, she lived in even greater luxury but had to obey restrictions imposed on royal women, including periods of purdah -- when she was kept secluded from any form of public life.
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