4m female factory workers deprived of their due rights: Naeem

Mothers, sisters and daughters of Karachi are deprived of basic amenities, says JI official

KARACHI:

The Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Wing, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has said that about four million women in Karachi, working in factories on contract basis, are not given their due rights by the employers.

Addressing a women's convention in Karachi, he said that while seminars for women's rights are held from time to time, nothing practical is achieved.

Expressing hope that Jamaat-e-Islami will stand high in local body elections and will have enough mandate to have its mayor, the JI Karachi leader said that when JI will be in power, women will be respected and their problems will be solved.

Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that Karachi is currently under its worst condition and JI was the only hope of 35 million people living in the city. He said that mothers, sisters and daughters of Karachi are deprived of basic amenities. Karachi is running the entire country's economy, but it is infested with the menace of corruption and looting un the hands of the few, he said, lamenting that the city also lacks an effective transportation system.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2022.