If there's one thing most Pakistani men believe firmly, it's that women are responsible for all their problems. If a man loses his job, it's because his wife doesn't wear a burqa, or watches too much TV. The corpulent Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who was until recently Imran khan's arch enemy and is now in bed with him, actually thinks earthquakes and floods are caused by girls wearing jeans.
Once, in Shehbaz Sharif's second Punjab government, it was decided that all girl students should wear burqas. There was a hue and cry, and the proposal was dropped.
Imran Khan, of course, is on record as saying that women are responsible for being raped. Nowadays his sayings are viral on the net, as he has applied to be the next chancellor of Oxford University, where he was apparently taught that Germany and Japan are neighbors. Recently a law-maker in his party objected to a Karachi woman's dress after she proved that he's a duffer who knows nothing about electricity production and distribution.
So I wasn't at all surprised at another attempt by those running Punjab University attempting to force girl students to dress "simply", meaning that they should come to class completely enveloped in a black robe with slits for their eyes to see. I suppose someone told the vice-chancellor that this is the only way the university can be saved from bankruptcy.
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