Bilawal calls for giving equal rights to women

FM says promotion of human rights is impossible without it

LAHORE:

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that it is impossible to promote human rights without giving equal rights to women.

According to a statement issued by Bilawal House Media Cell on Sunday, the PPP chairman, in his message on National Women’s Day, extended greetings to the entire nation, including all the mothers, sisters and daughters of Pakistan, saying that this day “is a symbol of Pakistani women’s struggle for democracy and resistance to dictatorship”.

Bilawal said that Pakistani women were a metaphor of unparalleled bravery, great talent and indomitable courage, adding that the Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah, Madar-e-Jamhooriat Begum Nusrat Bhutto and late Benazir Bhutto were role models for the world.

“It is a matter of pride for me that Pakistan Peoples Party is the only party in the country which has been led by two women,” he said.

Bilawal said that the Constitution of 1973 guaranteed equality, representation, protection and equal opportunities for development of women in Pakistan.

The PPP chairman assured the Pakistani women that his party fully supported their every struggle to end all forms of discrimination and exploitation.