ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has expressed Pakistan's strong support for the full realisation of women's rights and the fulfillment of strategic objectives agreed 25 years ago. The foreign minister expressed this commitment, while addressing a high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
He expressed strong support for the full realisation of women's rights, and stressed that more action was needed to achieve the desired goals.
He reaffirmed that Pakistan would continue to play an active part in that endeavour.
Qureshi highlighted that women in Pakistan were equal partners in the nation's socio-economic growth.
He said the current government encouraged women to shatter all glass ceilings that hindered the realisation of their full potential. He underscored that gender sensitive policies were at the heart of Pakistan's development paradigm.
Moreover, the flagship Ehsaas Programme for poverty alleviation was designed to reduce the disproportionate effects of poverty on the female population. He stated that the protection and promotion of women's rights was a central pillar of the prime minister's vision of creating a welfare state based on the model of "Riasat-e-Madinah".
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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