It still isn't much popular in Pakistan, very hardly do you come across women that wear that, its more popular amongst the Middle East region, maybe even Indian Muslims and Bengalis but not sure about themThis veiling tradition is not original to the Muslims at all. They have imitated it from other cultures. The first written mention of veiling for elite women dates back to Middle Assyrian laws around 1300 BCE. It became the norm in the Middle East, adopted by Jews and Zoroastrians. Two thousand years later, Abbasids in Baghdad copied it from the Jews and Zoroastrians. It started to take hold in some Muslim countries in the 1970s. When I was a kid, I hardly saw anyone with veils except some very older women in the villages in Pakistan.
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