Small minority, not Pakhtun culture, keeps women at home: Akram

UNITED NATIONS: A day after Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram drew flak from Pakhtuns and human rights activists in both Afghanistan and Pakistan for equating the Taliban government’s restrictions on women with the Pakhtun culture, he clarified on Thursday that he was referring to the “peculiar perspective” of a small minority when he spoke about the practice of keeping Pakhtun women at home.

Ambassador Akram made the controversial remarks during a briefing at the UN in New York on Wednesday.