HYDERABAD: A large number of women staged a rally here on Sunday demanding to end brisk price hike, growing joblessness, refrain from occupying the islands of Sindh and Balochistan and to annual the anti-people policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Home Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) staged a women's rally here to highlight the issues facing by the deprived segment of sociecy, including economic, social and constitutional issues related to women workers. It was led by the HBWWF general secretary comrade Zahra Khan. A large number of women, carrying red flags, placards and banners, attended the rally.

Addressing the rally, speakers said the sitting government has already crossed all limits in its enmity to the poor masses. Due to slavish policies of this government, more than 18 million workers have already been rendered jobless. More than half population of Pakistan is living beneath the poverty line. Basic kitchen items like wheat flour, lentils, rice, vegetables, milk, sugar and cooking oil have already gone out of the reach of poor people. The prices of medicines are hiked by up to 200 percent and for the poor people now even life saving medicines are not affordable. Unprecedented rise in tariffs of gas and electricity has paralyzed the industrial production. The speakers said the value of Pakistan currency is decreased by 35percent and real wages of workers have been dropped by 50 percent, which are creating the worst economic, social and political crises.

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