Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has always stood and strived for women’s rights and empowerment in Pakistan, especially under the leadership of its chairman, the current Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
From the First Women’s Bank to the Women Police Station to the Lady Health Workers Programme, which started during the first and second tenures of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and were successfully continued and mainstreamed in Pakistan. PPP also empowered the women economically as the Sindh Government handed over of 25 acres of land to landless women farmers in Sindh.
The Benazir Income Support Program was another revolutionary program of the PPP under the leadership of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The Pakistan People’s Party has recently launched Pink Bus service for women to resolve the commute issue of the women of the port city.
Each bus has a total capacity of 50 seats, while two seats are reserved for special women. Female drivers and hostesses have been hired for the bus service. Buses will run every 20 minutes from 7am to 11am and then from 4pm to 9pm, and every hour the rest of the time.
PPP’s women empowerment initiative called ‘Women on Wheels’, launched from the same venue in Karachi has now become a national program and is most popular among young girls, as the drivers of the future and their own fate.
The list of PPP’s work for empowering women of the country is so long. Making Dr Fahmida Mirza, as first women speaker of the assembly of the country and making Hina Rabbani Khar as foreign minister and there are many other revolutionary steps, which clearly indicates that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is following the footprints of his mother and empowering the women of the country remains his top priority.
