Abdul Halim Khan is a politician, a Muslim cleric, and an ex MNA from Kohistan, Pakistan. He belongs to the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan party and won the NA-23 (Kohistan) constituency seat in 2002. [1] He holds the view that "girls should not be educated, women should not work unless accompanied by mahrams and 'honour' killing is a religiously-sanctioned practice", [2] and has threatened that women working for NGOs who enter Kohistan will be forcibly married. [3]
This was in keeping with his other obscurantist views, according to which girls should not be educated, women should not work unless accompanied by mahrams and 'honour' killing is a religiously-sanctioned practice.
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