Sindh government to set up shelter homes for women

Fatima said that there was also a need to make men aware about the rights that Islam gives to women. She said that past governments developed facilities related to childcare but nothing was done to create facilities for women. “No step has been taken to utilise 10 per cent quota for women in the public sector,” she added.

She said: “We are also lobbying for the provision of legal protection to home-based women workers and law against sexual harassment at workplace as presently lot of women are languishing in the jails due to lack of legal aid facility to them.”

She said that Benazir Bhutto encouraged women to come forward and become part of mainstream politics. “We will continue her legacy and train more and more women in politics so that they can fight for their rights more appropriately,” she said. She said that her department would hold seminars in interior Sindh to create awareness among them, as Islam gives equal rights to both women and men.