Daily Times

Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar said that women make up half of the country’s population and Pakistan cannot progress if women are neglected in the journey of development.

“We have to change our thinking and whole society has to stand against those powerful people who abused women,” said the mayor. “The world is now raising voice on animal rights but in our society various human groups are still asking for their rights,” he added.

“Reports of maltreatment with women servants in houses and with peasants in rural areas are unfortunate. Women representation in different assemblies increased and they have to raise strong voice for their rights,” said the mayor while speaking in a workshop organised jointly by City Institute of Image Management (CIIM), KMC and Pakistan Council of Media Women (PCMW) in the KMC Head Office on the subject of “sexual Harassment and how to deal with it” for women journalist on Tuesday.

Karachi mayor said that we can deliver strong message to our future generation through such discussions. Mehmood Sham said that women and men are created by God and gender discrimination is based on the society and lifestyle.

The workshop was also addressed by Noor-ul-Huda Shah, GM Jamali, Nuzhat Shirin, Nasreen Parvez, Maya Khan, Maria Memon, and others. An interactive question and answers session was held afterwards during which participants asked many questions from experts. In the end, the chief guest gave away certificates to the participants of the workshop.

Senior journalist Mehmood Sham, PFUJ president G.M Jamali, Police DIG Dr. Ameer Shaikh, famous writer Noor-ul-Huda Shah, founder president PCMW Humaira Motala, director CIIM Muhammad Shahid, anchorpersons of different TV Channels and a good number of women journalists were present on this occasion.

Published in Daily Times, December 19^th 2018.