Highlights 1 King Salman allows women to drive cars. 3 Women with a license from any Gulf Cooperation Council countries would be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, ending a conservative tradition seen by rights activists as an emblem of the Islamic kingdom's repression of women. "This is an historic day and I cannot find the words to express my feelings and the feelings of thousands of Saudi women," she said on Arabiya TV. The position of Saudi women gradually improved under late King Abdullah and since King Salman took over in 2015, the kingdom has been opening more areas for women through the government's modernising reforms.

Source: India Today September 26, 2017 21:28 UTC