Shafi cannot hold back girls at home any more: Jabbar

DOT Desk: Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar today said it is impossible to hold back girls in their homes any more as the prime minister has already brought them out for education and huge number of them are engaged in development activities. Countering the Hefajat-e Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi’s speech in a roundtable discussing at Brac Inn Auditorium in Dhaka on “4th Industrial Revolution – Are we ready?”, Jabbar said that of the total students, 53 percent are girls and they cannot even bring down one percent of it. “Our prime minister has already brought out these girls from their home and now development will continue through the hands of these girls and Shafi huzur cannot stop this flow,” he added.
At one point of the discussion, Naimuzzaman Mukta, a former specialist of Access to Information (a2i) project under the government’s ICT Division, raised the issue of Shah Ahmed Shafi’s yesterday’s speech where he made parents promise that they won’t send their daughters to school.
Mukta said, “In one side, we are talking about the development and the fourth industrial revolution and in another side, we found people like Shafi huzur who are asking people not to allow their daughters to go to school.”