PTI organized a conference on the international women day on women issues and reforms. Andleeb Abbas Information Sec. Punjab inaugurating the conference said that the status of women in Pakistan was constantly deteriorating she said that in 2006 the gender difference between male and female opportunities and resources in Pakistan placed Pakistan on 112 ranking while in every year the ranking has gone done and in 2013 the gender disparity ranking has fallen to 135 out of 136 countries which makes Pakistan the second worst gender disparity country in the world only Yemen is below it. She said that all social in dictators of Pakistan had place continuous deterioration with women health seeing a constant. She said that Pakistan had one of the highest infant motaliy rate then the tragic statistic that every 20 minutes a mother dies in Pakistan due to lack of health facilities. Dr. Yasmin Rashid Gen Secretary Punjab presented the health facts and said that the role of mother is crucial to save a family and any family where the mother dies the chances of the two of the children surviving decrease sharply. She said Pakistan had allocated only 4.75 to the health budget which is one of the lowest in the world. She said that PTI demands from the govt. that the health budget be made 5% as PTI’s KP govt. has already increased it to 6%. She said that the PTI demanded that the govt. upgrade all BHU’s and DHU’s she also said that the free provision of medicines should be made in all public hospitals. Ejaz Ch President Punjab said that the education of women suffered great disparity as the female literacy ratio was only 47% compared to make ratio to 72%. He said that PTI demanded that the poor should not only be given free education but special emphasis being given on teachers training to improve quality of education. He demanded that young men and women should also be given vocational training and functional literacy to improve their chances of getting employment. Chief Guest for the seminar Khursheed Mehmood Kasoori said that it is sad that Pakistan had missed out on all millennium development goals and govt. as shown extreme negligence in protecting both the working women and home based workers as well. He said that the recent incidences of violence and rapes to women working in households is extremely disturbing and PTI’s bill that has been presented on domestic house hold violence in the assembly should be accepted and taken up by the govt. he demanded that the govt. should be carrying out special literacy programs for the poorest of the poor who could not afford to keep their daughters out of work. He said that the example set by KPK govt. in providing highest budget to education and health should be emulated in Punjab and health and education facilities to women should top all social development priorities. Also present in the seminar Rai Hassan Nawaz, Faizullah Khamokha, Sadia Saif, Aliya Hamza Malik, Sobia Kamal, Ayesha Zaheer, Dr. Seemi Bokhari, Rana Nadeem Ahmed, Rana Sajid Shokat, Shehryar Raza, Ishitiaq Malik, Naveed Ansari, Farhan Chishti, Adnan Jamil and other office bearers.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:38:03 +0000
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