Sirajul Haq addressed a women training convention at Mansoora

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the parties doing politics in the name of the women as also the NGOs had only added to the problems and hardships of the womenfolk. He was telephonically addressing a women training convention being held at Mansoora from Islamabad on Friday.

Sirajul Haq said that Almighty Allah had made the women the queen of the household whereas all those engaged in the so called struggle for women’s rights had compelled respectable mothers, sisters and daughters to work round the clock. The JI wanted to accord the women the status given to them by the Creator.

He said the JI was the strongest and the most effective voice for women rights. He said that the JI had the biggest women wing of all the political parties in the country which was struggling for the social, economic and political rights of the womenfolk. Besides, he said, the JI had given representation to the women in its central Shoora.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI wanted to build Pakistan into a true Islamic welfare state wherein all men  and women could play their role in evolving an Islamic society in an atmosphere of respect and sense of responsibility.

He said that to ensure women’s welfare and uplift, the Quranic injunction for women’s inheritance right must be strictly enforced. Besides, he said, there must be separate educational institutions and universities for women where they could learn all subjects and arts including science and technology in line with their aptitude. This would enable them to play their due role in national development, he added.

He stressed for interest free loans to the women for small business and cottage industries and for an end to the system of dowry and demanded official ban on this practice.

He said that if the national wealth lying in the accounts of our politicians and bureaucrats abroad was retrieved, the country won’t need any aid from IMF and all development and welfare projects including those of women could be completed easily.