Slots sought in KP cabinet for women

PESHAWAR: A former member provincial assembly Miraj Humayun Khan has said women have been ignored again during the KP cabinet reshuffle and expansion.

In a letter to the Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and later talking to reporters at Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, she said that not taking women in the cabinet was a violation of the Constitution. She said the Constitution provides equal rights and the chapter on Principles of Policy underlines the principle of equal rights and equal treatment to all citizens/persons without any distinction on the basis of gender. Miraj Humayun said the women were almost 50 percent of the population and they have special needs. She said women’s social economic and political role should have been understood and acknowledged by the government by now. Women, she said, still have problems with accessing offices purely staffed by men.

They need women to listen to their grievances and help them solve their problems, she argued. It, she said, would be a real pity if PTI government completes its second tenure in KP without women in the 30 member cabinet.