PTI central info secy says women will raise their voice against JUI-F chief, take to streets and ‘expose his corruption’ if he fails to curb his ‘anti-women statements’
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central Information Secretary Shireen Mazari Sunday warned Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman of countrywide protests by women over his remarks against women participants of PTI’s protest sit-in.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Mazari termed Rehman’s remarks as “uncivil” and said that he should be aware that the country’s population constituted 51 percent women.
Earlier, a ruckus was created in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly following Opposition leader Lutfur Rehman’s patronised Fazl’s remarks against PTI’s women workers, resulting in lawmakers from both sides using abusive and un-parliamentary language against each other.
“He (Fazl) has rightly said that daughters of the nation have been made to dance in PTI sit-ins,” the opposition leader had said, triggering a commotion in the house by angering treasury members, who demanded that the opposition leader withdraw his remarks about women.
Mazari said that the education budget of KP had allocated 70 percent funds for women’ education, adding, “PTI was providing women with their rights which was causing Fazl to have a heart attack.”
She criticised NGOs and women lawmakers for their “silence over the JUI-F chief’s remarks” against the participants of PTI’s sit-in.
“Why are they sitting in assemblies if they cannot raise their voice for the rights of women,” she said while talking about women legislators.
Mazari said that Fazl used derogatory language against women which was intolerable and issued a “final warning” to the JUI-F chief.
She said, “Women would raise their voice against Fazl, take to the streets and expose his corruption in case he failed to curb his anti-women statements.”
In August, JUI-F had held rallies across Sindh against PTI Chairman Imran Khan for hurling wild allegations and using unparliamentary language against Fazl.
The rallies had also condemned PTI women workers and supporters for “singing and dancing in the streets of Islamabad as being shown live by television channels”.
