ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari said that the need is to follow footsteps of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto so that the conservatives could be defeated while Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, said that the women of Pakistan would not cow down to intimidation, and threats from the “agents of the patriarchy and misogyny.”
In a message on the eve of International Women’s Day, former president said that Islam teaches us to respect women and the people who want to impose their thoughts and philosophy on the society by force are in fact afraid of human awareness. The time has gone when women were silenced and now women are getting their rightful place in the society with their effort and capability, he said.
In the meanwhile, in a statement on Saturday on the eve of the International Women’s Day, Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the women of Pakistan would not bow down to the intimidation and threats of agents of the patriarchy and misogyny.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that PPP has always strived to ensure and extend the rights of women, against the pushback from anti-women and anti-equality parties who believe in patriarchal structures. “Women and marginalised communities are the real strength of the PPP and the party will fight together with them against those who are plotting to enslave them in the chains of the patriarchy,” he said.
The PPP chairman said that the people of Pakistan had voted in the Muslim world’s first woman prime minister, and she carved the path for women in the male dominated state structures.
Bilawal said that revolutionary social safety net Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) was launched by President Asif Ali Zardari to fulfil the vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. However, he said, the Imran Khan regime was removing the picture and name of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto from BISP Cards in an effort to reverse the message of women’s empowerment in Pakistan. “Small men in big offices would never be able to undo the cracks she made in the walls of the patriarchy. Every woman now knows that she too can be Benazir,” he said.
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