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Pakistani women are forging ahead in the political platform against the traditional discrimination facing their approach to politics as other basic rights of life varies considerably across classes and regions in the Muslim country.
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At a workshop on the role of Pakistani women in politics held on Thursday in the capital of Islamabad, the speakers urged political leaders of different parties to empower women wings of their parties and demanded restoration of six seats for women in the union councils of local governments.

A large number of office bearers of women wings of different political parties, representatives of civil society organizations and women councilors, participated in the conference sponsored by PATTAN, a non-profit and non-governmental development organization.

They said that Pakistani women have limited political role in political parties and political women said they have no role in the party decision-making and women are being maltreated by the male-oriented setup in Pakistan.

The rural/urban division is also a reason for uneven socioeconomic development and the impact of tribal, feudal, and capitalist social formations on women’s lives, they said.

Presenting the key findings of a Baseline Study on Presence and Status of Women in Political Parties across Pakistan, PATTAN National Coordinator Sarwar Bari said the political parties are backbone of democracy and without involving half of Pakistan’s population in political processes the country can’t move forward in any field.

Bari said women’s contribution to agriculture and informal sector is crucial and girls/women perform better than boys/men in education but their participation in decision-making has been very low.

The research data indicates that only 51 percent district chapters of political parties in Pakistan have formed women wings. Almost all the women wings were formed through nomination process carried out by their party leadership. It also shows that women wings of most parties lack powers and authority as all their offices position had been appointed by male party leaders.

The study was conducted in 23 districts of Pakistan during 2008-09. In total, 29 national and regional political parties of Pakistan were studied.

The majority respondents during survey expressed their dissatisfaction regarding implementation of decisions made by women wings. Women participants of the study said that leaders did not value their opinion and decisions of their wings.
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In most of the political parties in Pakistan, women wings lack proper interaction with main bodies. Most women believe that their status in the family and society have enhanced after joining political parties and politics. While some women said that a few men defame politically active women. Most women said their parties did not have any gender policy.

Talking about the impacts of militancy on women politics, Farazana Kauri, a political activist of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party, told Xinhua that impact of extremism is not confined to women politics but this menace has affected all spheres of life in Pakistan.

Commenting on the fact that some women are serving key posts in Pakistan’s politics including Fahmida Mirza as the speaker of the National Assembly and Hina Rabbani Khar as the state minister for finance and economic affairs, a senior journalist Sumara Khan told Xinhua that Pakistani women are fighting hard for their rights in politics despite all the bias against them.