Acting Speaker Sindh Assembly and Pattern in Chief Women Parliamentary Caucus Sindh Rehana Laghari, on Wednesday, stressed on need of reforms in the election laws to strengthen role of women in politics.

She was addressing a consultative meeting of Women Parliamentary Caucus of National and Sindh Assembly on election reforms organised here at Sindh Assembly building in collaboration with UN Women and UNDP.

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P4DP, a research and peacebuilding institution, believes that the commitment of political parties to this process is intended to pave the way for increased women’s political participation, promoting gender equality and enhancing the representation of women at the national legislative level.

A Pakistan-born woman member of the House of Representatives of the US state of Connecticut was attacked after she came out of a hall after offering Eidul Adha prayers with her family this week in the state’s capital city of Hartford, it emerged on Saturday.

“It took four years for Ge-ann to be acquitted of all the charges against her, involving a ridiculous trove of firearms and explosives that bear the usual telltale marks of planted evidence. But the unfunny thing is, Frank Fernandez and Cleofe Lagtapon were convicted for the same charges in what is one of the most frequently reset promulgations of judgment that is also most highly questionable which their lawyers will appeal.”