Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani congratulated all parliamentarians, especially women parliamentarians, on the unanimous passage of the Anti-Women Practices Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2008.
Recalling the services of Benazir Bhutto, Gilani said Benazir had always given priority to legislation protecting the rights of women.
“In this same spirit, all the legislators of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) lent their full support to this bill moved on the private Members Day by Donia Aziz,” the prime minister said.
He said the PPP and its democratic government had always risen above party politics when it was a matter of the rights of women.
The prime minister said he would continue to lend full support to legislation and its implementation when the rights of women were at stake.
Prime Minister Gilani’s daughter, Fizza Gilani also congratulated the parliamentarians on the passage of the pro-women bill.
