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PTI warns Fazl over ‘anti-women’ remarks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central Information Secretary Shireen Mazari issued a stern warning to JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman for making derogatory comments against PTI’s women supporters.
Addressing a press conference, Mazari said that PTI would raise its voice if he continued to use foul language against women. “We are giving a final warning to Fazlur Rehman. We will not tolerate his abusive remarks anymore,” she said.
She deplored the silence of women parliamentarians particularly of the PPP, ANP and PML-N for their silence over Fazl’s remarks.
“Why are they sitting in the assemblies if they cannot raise their voice for the rights of women,” she said while talking about the women legislators.
The PTI leader also slammed non-government organisations (NGOs) for not speaking out against the JUI-F chief. She said that Fazl must know that 51% of Pakistan’s population comprised of women.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman at a public meeting in Quetta before escaping a suicide attack had said that Pakistan’s longest mujra (dance party) was held in Islamabad, an apparent reference to PTI’s sit-in in Islamabad where enthusiastic women workers of the party also participated in large numbers.
Mazari said that the 70 percent of education budget of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been allocated for women education and added that “PTI is providing women with their rights which is causing Maulana Fazl to have a heart attack”.
Mazari said that Fazl had used derogatory language against women which was intolerable and issued a ‘final warning’ to the JUI-F chief.
She said that “women would raise their voice against Fazl, take to the streets and expose his corruption in case he failed to curb his anti-women statements”.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk