NewsOctober 17, 2019
Hazara woman from Pakistan named in BBC’s 100 Women of 2019
LONDON: Jalila Haider, a Hazara woman from Pakistan, was on Wednesday named in the 100 women of 2019 list compiled by United Kingdom-based news outlet British Broadcasting Corporation.Haider, who is a human rights lawyer, specialises in defending women's rights in Pakistan, and provides free legal services to women in poverty across the country. She is also the founder of We the Humans, a non-profit organisation working with local communities to provide opportunities for vulnerable women and children.
According to the BBC, she is the first female lawyer from the Hazara community, and in 2018 she went on hunger strike demanding protection for her people.
Taking to social networking platform Twitter, Haider expressed profound joy at In July, an accountability court had refused to grant further physical custody of Hamza Shahbaz to the NAB and had sent him to jail on judicial remand. According to Ramzan Sugar Mills reference, the NAB has blamed Hamza for his alleged role being the chief executive of the sugar mills to get constructed a drain facilitating his mill out of the public money in Chiniot. The then chief minister Shahbaz Sharif allegedly approved an amount of Rs210 million for construction of the drain.
Courtesy www.thenews.com.pk
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