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Afghan President Approves Inclusion of Mother’s Name on ID cards; Centuries old Islamic tradition fading away
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KABUL, 18 September 2020, (TON): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has approved the inclusion of a mother’s name in the country’s national identity cards.
In many countries of the world only the name of the father is given in official documents. In Afghanistan too name of the father was recorded but foreign-funded NGOs and social activists complain that this makes women invisible. In traditional Islamic society, it is still regarded as shameful to mention the name of mother or females as identity of men. The very tradition has been taken from Quranic verses in which Muslims have been ordered by Almighty Allah to address children including the adopted children from the names of their fathers.
Now Afghan mothers will have their names printed on their children's national identity cards.
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