Daily Times

Sir: Women in Pakistan, and in particular in the upper and lower districts of Sindh and Balochistan, face a variety of legal, socioeconomic and cultural problems. They are deprived of all fundamental human and constitutional rights. There is also a lack of genuine political will to ensure that girls are given equal access to education in the country, particularly in rural areas. Women are regarded as inferior to men and are not expected to aspire. They are in the trap of abject poverty. On the contrary, women from affluent backgrounds live in comfort, and spend money lavishly. A community cannot survive when its educated citizens are morally and intellectually bankrupt and decrepit.

I wish wisdom dawned upon wealthy women and they dedicated themselves to the improvement of conditions for poor women and their malnourished children in rural Pakistan, particularly in the upper and lower Sindh districts.

As a first step, women who can afford to should donate some of their clothes and other household items to the poor rural women.

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Islamabad