Empowered women and strong Pakistan: MQM

By arranging a mammoth rally in Karachi, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) linked women empowerment to the prosperity of the country.

It added another landmark to the country’s political history by supposedly organizing the world’s largest congregation of women.

Altaf Hussain, the MQM chief while addressing the large gathering of his female followers startled the audience even further by claiming that this congregation alone was enough to counter the claims about big rallies by other political groups.

The sea of women waving the traditional red, green and white flags indeed seemed larger than the crowd that had thronged Bagh-e-Jinnah in the recently held rallies at the same venue.

Some officials of the party claimed that around one million women attended the rally. It seemed that the party’s male members heeded to their leader’s advice, after all, as the crowd contained women from all socio-economic backgrounds.

These claims gained credibility after the BBC declared the rally to be the largest gatherings of women ever organised across the globe.

The gathering was titled ‘Empowered women, strong Pakistan’. The MQM chief claimed that that Sunday’s rally of women was the biggest not only in the history of Pakistan or the Asian continent but the entire world.

Explaining the objectives of the rally, he said it was to ensure women’s empowerment in the country, saying that those who meted out ill treatment to women should be dealt with iron hands.

He observed, “It was MQM that staged a million-march for the rights of Baloch people and also got the bill for women empowerment passed by the Parliament”.

It was the party which came out to challenge the archaic customs that had been in practice to suppress women and other weak segments of society.

“If anyone is keen to witness revolution, come to Bagh-e-Quaid,” the MQM chief claimed and challenged that even a collective rally of all the parties of the country could not beat this turnover.

Regretting over women’s condition in rural areas of the country who are deprived of their basic rights, he stated that the they took practical step to shield their rights instead of paying only lip service.

He was of the view that they were standing with women struggling for the recovery of missing persons, making a demand of the government to release their loved-ones while exposing the apprehenders.

Altaf Hussain also asserted that his party increased woman participation in the country’s politics.

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