Staff Reporter
The Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, leadership on the occasion of International Women Day has vowed to make all possible efforts for the inborn rights of women. Thousands of women participated in rallies taken out in different cities across the country on Sunday in connection with the day.
Held under the title ‘Youm-e-Takreem-e-Niswaan’ (a day to pledge respect for women), the participants of the marches holding placards and banners inscribed with slogans ‘My Life-God’s will’, ‘Respect of Women-Respect of Nation’, ‘We are the mothers, sisters and daughters’ demanded equal curriculum and equal opportunities of education, end of harassment culture at workplaces, separate women universities and hospitals and enforcement of brilliant principals of Islam in the country.
In Islamabad, JI Emir Senator Sirajul Haq addressed the participants who earlier marched from National Press Club to China Chowk. JI leaders Mian Muhammad Aslam, Dr Tariq Saleem, Aysha Syed also addressed on occasion.
In Lahore, women from different walks of life marched from Nasir Bagh to Zila Kachahri. Begum Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Begum Sirajul Haq, Samia Raheel Qazi, Dr Zubaida Jabeen, Rabia Tariq, Dr Zeba Waqar, Faiqa Salaman and others were among the participants.
JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim and JI Lahore chapter head Zikrullah Mujahid addressed the rally.
In Karachi, JI Emir Karachi chapter Hafiz Naeemu Rahman and JI Women Wing Secretary General Durdana Siddiqui addressed the marchers. In Faisalabad, Maulana Javed Kasuri, the JI Central Punjab chapter Emir, addressed the rally. JI Women Wing organized rallies in Peshawar, Quetta, Multan and other cities.
“The Election Commission of Pakistan should not name any hopeful who as male doesn’t give his sister her inheritance rights,” demanded Siraj. He announced that in future will not give a party ticket to any man who deprived his sister of her inheritance right. He described the ruling elite as a hurdle between women and their rights in the country. He demanded the government build separate women universities and hospitals in major cities.
Ameerul Azim lamented that certain elements were trying to exploit the slogan of women rights and attack Islam in the garb of their campaign for the so-called human rights. He said majority of the women in the country were deprived of their rights by the ruling elite, feudal lords and the capitalist system. Those in power, he added, were never wanted to implement the laws granting women every right in the society. The ruling elite, he said, must be held accountable for their sins. “Women should question the rulers why they have been deprived of their rights.”
JI Deputy Emir Liaqat Baloch said that participation of thousands of women in the JI rallies proved that Pakistani woman would never allow westernize and secularize the society. He said Islam and the constitution of Pakistan granted every right to women and there was an urgent need to implement them.
Speakers said Islam granted every right to women and it was the only tested system for more than 15 centuries. They regretted that in many parts of the country powerful individuals and feudal lords never share inheritance rights with women.
