Pheran Ban creates buzz on Social Media
A day after Kashmir Post reported on the ban on the traditional Kashmiri attire Pheran, the social media has been abuzz with numerous politicians, social activists, journalists and commoners expressing their dismay on the ban order while a
The former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National conference Vice President Omar Abdullah while urging the School Education Department to withdraw its order asking officials to refrain from wearing the Pheran said, “I fail to understand why
“This is a regressive order that makes no sense at all. Pherans are a very practical way of keeping warm during the cold winter aside from being part of our identity. This order should be withdrawn,” Omar wrote on Twitter.
He added: “My father & I have worn
Following Omar’s tweet the social media went abuzz with senior journalist Sankarshan Thakur writing, “And intrinsic to Kashmiri life in more ways than just one. Ludicrous someone should think of banning such a wonderful and versatile garment ‘Pheran’.”
NC leader and former lawmaker Altaf Kaloo wrote, “Nobody on earth can dictate us for not wearing Pheran…. will continue with this.”
Reacting to the ban, senior Kashmir based journalist Yusuf Jameel while sharing the photographs of various motifs of Pheran wrote, “The officer who has sought to ban wearing of
Congress leader Salman Nizami while sharing a photograph of him wearing a Pheran wrote, “Pharan is our cultural identity. What’s the governor’s agenda?
Right wing Bharatiya Janata Party ally Peoples Conference leader and Mayor Srinagar Municipal Commission Junaid Azim Mattu supported the ban.
“Every workplace has the right to have a reasonably non-invasive general dress code. Nobody has declared