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ECB policymakers enter their pre-meeting "purdah" week on Thursday, when they avoid public comment, without having sent any clear sign that their thinking has changed since early December.— pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
Hussain also said Chand Bibi had expressed her inability to appear in the Supreme Court as she and her family felt it was not appropriate for a purdah-observing Pashtun girl to do so in the presence of TV cameras and onlookers.— The Times of India
Expression of such opinion from the bench of the Supreme Court is a very serious matter as it is a clear infringement of the religious, civil and human rights of millions Muslims and others who have kept beards and observed purdah, a tradition continuing for over a thousand years in our country, long before anyone heard of the word "Taliban" or its current connotations.— The Milli Gazette: India, Muslim, Islamic News

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