{"id":3011,"date":"2008-03-18T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:47:03","slug":"did-you-know-beauty-pageants-are-banned-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"Did you know beauty pageants are banned in Pakistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan forbids beauty pageants or any such demonstration within Pakistan as some lawmakers feel it goes against the religious and cultural binds of the country&#8217;s primary religion of Islam. As the majority of countries of the world have representatives competing in international pageants such as <i>Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Earth, Queen of the World,<\/i> along with others, Pakistani women never thought that they would share in the opportunities that other countries did to show the pride of their nation on an international scale. <\/p>\n<p> Times are changing &#8211; the <b>Miss Pakistan World<\/b> pageant was launched in 2002 in Canada by Sonia Ahmed with the goal of the pageant to allow self-styled &#8220;progressive&#8221; Pakistani women the opportunity to showcase their talents, beauty and desire for change on the international stage.  <\/p>\n<p> The latest winner, Mahleej Sarkari (above), just left to compete in the Miss Tourism Queen International 2008 pageant held in China. Her <b>Pakistan World<\/b> reign ends in June.  For more information on the pageant visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misspakistanworld.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.misspakistanworld.com<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan forbids beauty pageants or any such demonstration within Pakistan as some lawmakers feel it goes against the religious and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,2110],"tags":[2114],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-fashion-beauty","tag-beauty"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"njaiyo","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Pakistan forbids beauty pageants or any such demonstration within Pakistan as some lawmakers feel it goes against the religious and","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Beauty","Fashion &amp; Beauty"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":140,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"njaiyo","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=6"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1005\">Beauty<\/a> <a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-2110\">Fashion &amp; Beauty<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}