Miss Afghanistan scorned at home
• Religious Meddlers, Do-gooders
"What is Miss Afghanistan, can you explain?" asked a fruit vendor outside a mosque in bustling Kabul, the Afghan capital. ...
Vida Samadzai, 26, a dark-eyed brunette of the Pashtun tribe who fled Afghanistan with her family in 1996, stepped out in a red bikini at an international beauty pageant in the Philippines at the weekend, professing to make the world aware of "Afghan women's talent, intelligence and beauty".
She is the first Afghan woman in 30 years to participate in the Miss World contest. But she has incurred the wrath of the few Afghans who have seen her photos or read the international news stories.
"What this Afghan girl has done is not freedom but is lascivious," Women's Affairs Minister Habiba Surabi said.
Sardar Ahmad, Middle East Times: Miss Afghanistan confuses and angers

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