JI holds women convention, vows to facilitate them for online earning opportunities

Our Correspondent
KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi held a women convention in the city, demanding respectable dedicated transportation services, durable peace in the city and solution to their problems.
The women convention was held at Bag-e-Jinnah, here on Friday. JI Karachi chief Engr Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, JI women wing leaders Attia Nisar, Asma Safeer and others addressed the convention. A large number of women activists, working women, female students and house wives attended the event.
Speaking on the occasion, JI leader Engr Naeemur Rehman highlighted the plight of working women and other issues surrounding women in the city. He said tens of thousands of women in Karachi are a part of the labor force in factories and offices but are compelled to work under the cruel contract system instead of direct permeant jobs. He vowed that the JI if elected would address their issues.
He urged the women in Karachi to take active part in the Karachi Rights Movement in order to get their due rights. He said that unfortunately the political parties, mandated by Karachiites in the past, raised the slogans of women rights but practically did nothing for them, instead the exploited the working women by plundering and further corrupting the system of governance.
He recalled that former city mayor, belonging to the JI, Nematullah Khan had launched a fleet of 362 busses under the mass transit program and floated the idea of light train but the later regimes not only shelved the mass transit program but also make the available busses disappeared from roads.