The National Assembly on Thursday made a landmark achievement by unanimously passing an important legislation to ensure further empowerment of women with most of the male and female parliamentarians contributing to the legislation to make it meaningful and effective. Unprecedented interest, commitment, cooperation and dedication were expressed by around half a dozen women parliamentarians along with two male members who introduced around 40 amendments into the bill which had already been improved by the respective standing committee. National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza played a pivotal role in improvement of the bill and held a special session with male and female MPs from various political parties, who wanted to present their amendments into the bill. A detailed session was held at the speaker’s chambers on Wednesday night and all necessary amendments were accommodated into the bill, which was unanimously passed by the House. Solidarity was also expressed by the members of the House as PML-N lawmaker Zahid Hamid pointed out to the speaker that some amendments in clause 3 of the bill had been left out due to misunderstanding and they should again be amended even if the bill had been passed by the House.
the story is incomplete; it does not what those amendments were made/passed by the assembly; the reporte should have told his readers about them; minus that it is co nfusing story, better for one not to read;
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