ByAbbas
Kassar
The meeting
was chaired by Professor Arfana Mallah and participated by members of civil society
including leaders of NGOs, journalists, women activists and others including
Haseen Musrat Shah of Women Action Forum, Professor Imdad Chandio of HRCP,
Iqbal Mallah of HUJ, Punhal Sario of Rawadari Tehrik, Rafia Bangash, Razaq
Umrani, Kashif Siddiqui, Musstafa Baloch, Shaukat Srewal, and journalists
Mahesh Kumar, Farooq Soomro and Abbas Kassar.
Arfana
Mallah while addressing the meeting said that one day before 8th March
participants from Hyderabad Sukkur Bridge
It may be
mentioned here that upper Sindh region of Sukkur is notorious for being a
slaughter-house for women as being semi-tribal area the region is under the hold
of tribal chiefs, feudal lords and
Jagirdars having psyche about women being kept under veil in homes and
considered as slaves and domestic servants. In many areas women cannot go out
of homes without escorts of men and not even to hospitals during acute illness.
In the
prevailing situation in upper Sindh taking out Women Freedom March by Women
Action Forum led by women activists Amar Sindhu, Arfana Mallah, Haseen Musrat
Shah is being seen as a bold step towards freedom of women in Pakistan