Ban on Kashmiri traditional dress reversed

    Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir have reversed an education department ban on traditional dress.

    The decision to stop staff coming to work wearing the traditional pheran dress caused an outcry on social media.

    Abdul Rashid, the zonal education officer who ordered the ban, confirmed to the Indian Express it had been overturned.

    This is not the first time the pheran has been banned - in 2014, the Indian army told journalists not to wear the pheran while visiting a corps headquarters in Srinagar. This decision was also soon retracted.

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