ISLAMABAD, May 7: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday reiterated the government’s resolve to continue its efforts for socio-economic emancipation of women and ensuring their due rights and role in every facet of life.

“The present government has taken unprecedented measures for ensuring women’s rights and the PML and its allied parties will do more in this respect,” he told reporters here at the Prime Minister’s House after a meeting with a delegation of the PML Women Wing led by Minister for Women Development and Youth Affairs Sumaira Malik.

PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and secretary-general Mushahid Hussain Sayed were also present.

The prime minister referred to the increase in special job quota for women in federal services from 5 to 10 per cent, enhanced representation of women in the democratic process right from the local government system to provincial and national assemblies and some other measures for their socio-economic progress and said these measures were taken by the PML government.

He expressed the hope that Ms Malik as new president of the PML’s Women Wing would work vigorously for the betterment of women and highlight their pivotal role in every sphere of life.

He said that a convention of the PML’s women from all the provinces would soon be called in Islamabad to provide an opportunity of exchanging views.—APP