President Dr Arif Alvi Saturday called for creating enabling environment to ensure women’s participation and inclusion in economic, business, trade, and industrial sectors on a fast-track basis.
The resident expressed these views while talking to a delegation of the Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Peshawar (WCC&IP), led by its President Mrs Shahida Parveen, that called on him, at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. Director General (Trade Policy), Ministry of Commerce and senior government officials also attended the meeting, a press release said.
The president said that women made up almost 50% of the country’s population and the provision of enabling conditions such as ensuring their safety and security at the workplace and providing quality education and skills to women should be the priority of the Government and society.
“Local traditions and practices regarding women’s property and inheritance rights need to be changed and women should be given all the property rights admissible to them as per our religion and the Constitution”, he stressed. He said recently, steps had been taken for their financial empowerment, further adding that legislation had been passed to give women their due share in inherited property.—APP
