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Mr President, the Taliban’s cowardly attack on Malala Yousafzai awakened the world to the tragedy that is the lives of women and girls in Pakistan, now the world’s third most dangerous country for women. A fundamentalist, extremist movement that we call ‘Islamic’ but is in fact anti-Islam, embodied by the Taliban, is the source of violence against women in Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan, denying them their role in society, including their basic rights to education, to civic participation, to choose how to live their lives, and, as we are seeing in Malala’s case, to life itself. Malala’s tragedy shocked the world and shocked Pakistan.
The wave of solidarity generated around this courageous girl, whose only crime was to take action and speak out to demand her rights, cannot come to nothing. It is time for us to call a halt to ‘business as usual’ with Pakistan. It is time to demand that the Pakistani civil and military authorities break free from dangerous ties and the controlling power of the Taliban and make real efforts to protect their people against intolerance and religious violence, which hit women and girls particularly hard.
The European Union cannot cultivate relations or invest in cooperation agreements with a government that remains in denial and does nothing while girls are attacked and killed simply for going to school, forced into marriage, traded as currency in the settlement of disputes, and trained by armed groups to carry out suicide attacks with the support of Pakistan’s military intelligence services. It is with Pakistani civil society, which is rallying, that the European Union must engage."@en1
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