Being a woman in Sharia-dominated Pak can be unnerving: US.Byline: ANI Washington, Mar.12 (ANI): The United States Congress, and particularly the Senate, feels that being a woman in a Pakistan dominated by the Sharia can be an unnerving un·nerve tr.v. un·nerved, un·nerv·ing, un·nerves 1. To deprive of fortitude, strength, or firmness of purpose. 2. To make nervous or upset. experience. When Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Democrat, asked the Director of the Defence Intelligence Agency Nigeria's Defence Intelligence Agency was created when, in 1986, fulfilling one of the promises made in his first national address as president, Ibrahim Babangida issued Decree Number 19, dissolving the National Security Organization (NSO) and restructuring the country's security , Major General Michael Maples "If you were a woman in Pakistan, would that be unnerving to you?", Maples replied "Absolutely sir it would." He further went on to say that it would be unnerving to the United States "from the standpoint of what that means to other militants." "And we're very concerned about that," he concluded. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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