MARDAN: Reham Khan, wife of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, on Thursday asked women to come forward and get a high position in the society through maximum participation in different sectors of life.

She was speaking as chief guest at the concluding ceremony of women’s cricket tournament in Mardan. “Being a woman I know better that women have great talent and competency to get a very high position in the society if they are provided opportunities and required facilities,” she said, adding that women were often ignored and they did not pay heed to get advantage of their talents.

She said that organising a women’s cricket tournament on the Pakhtun soil had proved wrong the general perception of the outside world that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had negative thoughts about women.

Mrs Khan asked women to take part in positive activities outside their homes besides making themselves good mothers.

Gives away prizes at women’s cricket tournament final

The final match of the first “Mrs Malik Saad Invitation Women Gold Cup Cricket Tournament” was played between women’s teams of Mardan and Peshawar districts on the ground of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKU M) here.

Mardan defeated Peshawar by five runs to lift the trophy.

The tournament was organised by Malik Saad Shaheed Memorial Sports Trust in collaboration with AWKUM. Teams of Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad, Charsadda and Haripur took part in the tournament. On this occasion, provincial minister for education Mohammad Atif Khan said that the PTI-led provincial government was committed to providing education and health facilities to girl students as well as women of the province.

He said that paperwork was in the final stages for establishing a women’s university in Mardan which would also benefit the residents of adjacent districts.

“The provincial government is going to organise an international festival in Mardan in the next couple of weeks,” he said, adding that it would remove the negative impression regarding deteriorating law and order situation in the country.

Earlier, the chief guest gave away trophies to the winner cricket team of Mardan and the runner-up team of Peshawar.

Published in Dawn, April 17th, 2015

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