Before you guess anything, let me tell you that it’s a tradition faced by the Afghan women. It is Afghanistan old tradition that allows families without a son to transform one of their daughters into a boy. There little girls are known as bacha posh  spend their adolescence dressed as boys, assuming all the responsibilities of a son and being accorded all the privileges of being a male. But the girls can only be bacha posh for a few years after puberty, they must revert to wearing the burqa and marry.

The Book on Bacha Posh has been written by noted journalist Preeti Sompura.Book is published by R k publication. In this book preeti revealed How do these girls live a lie for so many years? how can they become women after spending their youth behaving like boys?

When Preeti Sompura visited Afghanistan for the first time in 2011 she came to know about this tradition. She met a 14 year old girl in Kabul government hospital.The girl was mentally retarded.
A female doctor told Preeti that the girl was a Bacha posh victim .  First time she heard the word Bacha posh and here is the birth of her first book, Bacha Posh. After that three times she visited Afghanistan, met lots of Bacha posh victims, and discussed the issue with several NGOs. Originally her idea was to release the book in kabul in the hands of former president Hamid Karzai, as his government took many initiatives for girl child education but the Taliban 2.0 came in power and the rest is history.
The Book is released in Hindi but very soon the book will come in English, marathi, gujarati, urdu, dari and pashto languages .Here is the link of the book which you can order online.
Bachaposh https://amzn.eu/d/daYnpiE

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One more person has tested positive for Coronavirus in Pune. The person has travel history to France and Netherlands. Total number of positive cases reaches 18 in Pune and 42 in Maharashtra: Naval Kishore Ram, District Magistrate of Pune, Maharashtra.

China reported just one new domestic case in the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, but a dozen more imported infections from overseas. For the second consecutive day there was only one more fresh infection in Wuhan, the central city where the virus first emerged late last year, the National Health Commission said. New cases in Hubei province have now been in the single digits for the past seven days, down from a peak of several thousand per day in early February.

Wuhan and its 11 million people were placed under strict quarantine on January 23, with the rest of Hubei province going under lockdown in the following days. In recent days, there has been an easing of restrictions in some parts of the province, with China saying it has “basically curbed” the spread of the virus.

Over 1.86 lakh passengers who have returned from the coronavirus-affected countries have been screened at the Delhi airport till date and placed under surveillance, Delhi Health Department authorities said on Tuesday. The total coronavirus cases in Delhi now stands at eight. As many as 4,458 passengers from the coronavirus-hit countries were screened on Tuesday, according to a statement released by the Delhi Health Department. India had reported its second casualty due to coronavirus on Friday with the death of a 68-year-old woman in Delhi.

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Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)  here, Khan also said the least he expects the international community to do is to urge India to lift the curfew in Kashmir.

Responding to a question, Khan said he had urged his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to “reset” bilateral ties and his government waited to resume talks until after the elections in India were over but then it found that “India is pushing us in the boycott of the Financial Action Task Force to bankrupt us.”

He said that by abrogating Article 370, India had cast aside the UN Security Council resolutions, the Simla Accord and its own Constitution. Khan said he would ask the UN to play its role on the Kashmir issue.

Pakistan has tried to internationalise the Kashmir issue but India has asserted that the abrogation of Article 370 was its “internal matter”. New Delhi has also asked Islamabad to accept the reality and stop its anti-India rhetoric.

When asked about former US defence secretary James Mattis‘ remark that he considered Pakistan to be “the most dangerous” among all countries he had dealt with, Khan said, “I do not think Mattis fully understands why Pakistan became radicalised.”

Khan said Pakistan “committed one of the biggest blunders” when it joined the US war on terror after the 9/11 terror attacks by the al-Qaeda. “I think the Pakistani government should not have pledged what they could not deliver,” Khan said, referring to the then military dictator General Pervez Musharraf’s decision to side with the US.

Pakistan was one of the three countries which recognised the Taliban government in Afghanistan before the US invasion in 2001 there. After the US invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan extended support to American forces against the Taliban.

“In the 1980s, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan, helped by the US, organised the resistance to the Soviets. The ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) trained militants who were invited from all over the Muslim world to do jihad against the Soviets,” Khan said in response to a question.

“And so we created these militant groups to fight the Soviets… Jihadis were heroes then. Come 1989, Soviets leave Afghanistan, the US packs up and leaves Afghanistan… and we were left with these groups,” he added.

“Then comes 9/11, and Pakistan again joins the US in the war on terror and now we are required to go after these groups as terrorists. They were indoctrinated that fighting foreign occupation is jihad but now when the US arrived in Afghanistan, it was supposed to be terrorism,” Khan added.

“So Pakistan took a real battering in this,” the prime minister said, adding that Pakistan should have stayed neutral in the conflict. He insisted that there could be no military solution in Afghanistan and said he will urge President Donald Trump to resume peace talks. “For 19 years if you have not been able to succeed, you are not going to be able to succeed in another 19 years,” he added.

On Pakistan’s fragile economy, Khan said his government had inherited “the biggest current account deficit” in the country’s history and “so the first year has been a real struggle.” Khan thanked China for helping “when we were at the rock bottom”. “China has given us a great opportunity to lift ourselves up from where we are now,” he added.

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