President Emamali Rahmon, who has been in power since 1992, had earlier described the Islamic hijab as a problem for society.

A few years ago, a law was made here under which girls or women living here were allowed to become mothers without getting ...

But Kwok said that the school allowed Muslim girls to “wear hijabs or long pants” and permitted boys to grow beards. She added that the co-educational school was committed to being an ...