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Shoura Council members are planning to raise their pitch for allowing Saudi women to drive. They are preparing to hammer out a strong recommendation to ensure the issue gets utmost attention.
This comes close on the heels of a girl in Saudi Arabia helping save the life of a bus driver by driving the bus herself and averting an accident.
Sources said the discussion on the Interior Ministry's report was deferred on Monday by the Council to include the issue of women driving. It might take place before Ramadan now, the Saudi Gazette reported.
Sources said the Council's security committee is yet to draft a recommendation approving women driving to be included in the report. Last December, the Council members had turned down the recommendations made by the security committee as it didn't talk about women driving.
The Council had discussed the issue in its previous meeting which saw participation from 30 women.
In 2013, two members - Latifa Al-Shaalan and Haya Al-Manie - had taken up the issue of women driving for the first time. However, the security committee dubbed it inappropriate.
In April 2016, the two women members floated the matter again and called for amendment of the traffic law and to issue driving licenses to women too. But the Council's consultants rejected it again.
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