27 January 2004	Tuesday	04 Zilhaj 1424

PESHAWAR, Jan 26: The Pakistan People's Party has vowed to continue its struggle against the present rulers and their pseudo-opposition in the garb of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal alliance, in the larger interest of the nation.

Speaking at the PPP (Women wing) provincial convention here at the Nishtar Hall on Sunday, PPP central leaders congratulated the party's women wing for organising a workers' convention in province. The PPP fetched female workers across the province for the convention.

They said that womenfolk could not be kept forcibly out of the active political life in the name of controversial laws. They said PPP had always resisted the anti-women laws and it would continue its fight against such measures in the future.

People's Party Parliamentarians general secretary Raja Pervez Ashraf, PPP secretary general Jehangir Badar, PPP NWFP president Khwaja Khan Hoti, PPP senior-vice-president Syed Qamar Abbas, PPP (Women) provincial chief Mehrunnisa Afridi, PPP Balochistan chief Samina Raziq, PPP Sindh chief Begum Ruqyya Soomro, MNA Fauzia Habib, Begum Mukaram Shah (Malakand), Dr Seema Nawaz (Nowshera), Begum Naeema Nisar (Abbottabad), Raziya Jafari (Haripur), Mrs Sanjeeda Yousuf (D.I. Khan) Begum Shazada Sulaiman (Chitral), Begum Fida, Shazia Tehmas, Begum Ismat Kareem, Noor Jehan Rabbani (Peshawar) and others spoke about the PPP role in mobilising the womenfolk against the exploitative social system.

Speaking about the sacrifices rendered by the PPP leaders for the cause of justice and democracy, Jehangir Badar said PPP was the only party in the South Asian region, which worked for the uplift of the downtrodden. Mr Badar said that the PPP had rejected the Hadood laws.