Governor Balochistan Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar on Tuesday suggested ensuring the participation of women in all sectors and establishing a separate female police station at the level of each division in the province for addressing issues of them. He expressed these views while addressing the Women’s Police Conference organized with the cooperation of UN Women, the German Embassy Islamabad and Police Department in a local hotel in the provincial capital Quetta.
On this occasion, Inspector General of Police Balochistan Abdul Khaliq Sheikh, former Center Roshan Khursheed Broacha, former Speaker Balochistan Assembly Rahila Hameed Khan Durrani and a large number of police officers and women police personnel were present. Addressing the participants of the Women’s Police Conference, the Governor said that the colour and beauty of the society were related to the existence of both men and women and the joint efforts of both could guarantee us to create a society free from all kinds of exploitation.
Today’s conference made me proud to know that more than seven hundred female police officers including fifteen female police officers are performing their duties in Balochistan, he said. The governor said that raising a voice for the rights and powers of women and especially for the elimination of gender discrimination was definitely a welcome move. Today’s conscious women are not ready to remain dumb and deaf in the limited four walls in the name of the patriarchal system, he said and added that in all fields including police, women have proved that they were not less than anyone.
He said that even in today’s developed world, the patriarchal system, in other words, the supremacy and monopoly of other men was established and one-sidedness has been created in the thinking and approach of human beings in which the point of view of women was completely neglected, adding that unfortunately, our women were economically dependent on men, that’s why they need men in all aspects of life.
