Pakistan, UK agree to work jointly for Pakistani women empowerment

ISLAMABAD, Oct 07 (SABAH): In an important development, Special Assistant to the Caretaker Prime Minister on Human Rights and Women Empowerment Mushaal Hussein Mullick and Afzal Khan MP Labour Party Shadow Minister UK Parliament have agreed to work together in adopting sustained policy initiatives for Pakistani economic women empowerment and growth in work sector.

The SAPM on HR and Women Empowerment and MP Labour Party Shadow Minister UK Parliament held a meeting here on Saturday to discuss adopting sustained policy initiatives to empower Pakistani women in detail.

Both agreed that there was not only a dire need to start skill development program for Pakistani women but also giving them funds in order to enable them so as they could play their role alongside their male colleagues for the betterment and uplift of the country. During the meeting, SAPM on HR and Women Empowerment also discussed the plight of women in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) with Afzal Khan.

Mushaal Mullick said that Fascist Narendra Modi-led Indian Army has been criminally involved in human rights violation as they were not only involved in gang raping over 11000 women but also rendering around 22,963 women widows during the last few years. The SAPM on HR and women Empowerment informed the Shadow Minister UK Parliament that the Modi regime hatched numerous conspiracies to change the demography of the occupied valley in sheer violation of UN resolutions and international laws. She reiterated that the resolution of Kashmir dispute was imperative not only for durable peace in India and Pakistan, but also for the entire world because unresolved Kashmir issue would remain a constant threat for world peace.

Mushaal Mullick asked the international organizations, including the UK government to build pressure on Indian notorious government to release the unlawfully incarcerated Kashmiri leaders including her husband Muhammad Yasin Malik. She said that Yasin Malik was being implicated in false, fabricated and politically motivated cases in a bid to silent him because he was the most powerful voice of the Kashmir peaceful struggle. The British MP on the occasion held out assurance to SAPM on HR and Women Empowerment that he would take up the issue of the Indian atrocities and human right violations in UK parliament.