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Lahore, Apr 21 :
A subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee in the US has warned that the growing influence of the Taliban in Pakistan was posing threats to the women in the country.
Committee's representative asked Islamabad to do more to ensure women's safety.
"Pakistan needs to make more efforts to provide security to its women," Representative Betty Mccollum (D-MN) reportedly said at a hearing of the State Foreign Operations and Related Programmes Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
Mccollum is learnt to have told the committee that she had recently returned from a visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan and though there were some young girls attending schools in Pakistan, most of the young girls were not going to school.
The Taliban were making "in-roads" in Pakistan and several women, politicians and parliamentarians she met had told her that women were feeling threatened in Islamabad, the Daily Times quoted her as sayig.
She added: "They're feeling that they need to cover. They know of women who have had acid thrown on them. So, there's a lot of work that needs to be done with the international community working together to restore security for women in both Pakistan and Afghanistan."
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