Staff Reporter
Murree
Speakers at a training camp organised to highlight the role women can play in establishment of peace and stability on Wednesday stressed that participation of women in nation-building is an important ingredient to obtain an equitable, peaceful and prosperous society. The five-day camp jointly organised by the Paigham-e-Pakistan Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies and Dar-e-Irqam Foundation at Government Women Degree College Murree. Dr Samia Raheel Qazi, Zubair Mansoor, Rahim Qadri, Ali Raza and Mushtaq Mangat were prominent among those who spoke on the occasion. A huge number of female students from several cities participated in the event.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Samia Raheel Qazi said women are central to the democratic and economic development and their empowerment, equal status and effective participation in social, political and economic spheres is vital to moving democracy, good governance and development forward. She maintained that the promotion and achievement of gender equality and women empowerment is a means to the elimination of extremism and terrorism, which glorify violence and aggression in the society.
In his address, Zubair Mansoor said the women as mothers, wives, sisters and daughters in family settings.
