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| Senate passes resolution to protect women rights in TTP talks | |
| 2014-02-13 | |
[DAWN] The upper house of the Parliament Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution calling upon the government to not compromise on the rights of women and minorities in the negotiations with Taliban.
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) Senator Nasreen Jalil. She urged the government to constitute a commission for protection of women to resist illegal orders of jirgas. Ancient traditions like Sawara, Wani and marrying girls with Koran through tribal jirgas are common in Pakistain as government data shows that these are on the rise. Nine cases of Sawara were registered in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... alone in 2013, up from just one in 2012. Rights groups say the true number is much higher. DNA test report as an evidence in rape cases was also recommended in the resolution. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... it was excluded upon consultation in the house. Pakistain ranks as the world's second-worst country in terms of the division of resources and opportunities between male and female populations according to The Global Gender Gap Report 2013, published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with faculty at Harvard University ...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? and the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley. The study assessed 136 countries, representing more than 93 per cent of the world's population. | |
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