ISLAMABAD, May 25: Minister for Women Development and Youth Affairs Sumaira Malik on Thursday said special funds had been allocated in the next budget for establishment of crisis and resource centres for women.

She said this while talking to US Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker who called on her here on Thursday.

The minister highlighted the steps taken by the government regarding political empowerment of women at grass-root level. She said the government was devising policies for the economic empowerment of women too.

She told Mr Crocker that now Pakistan was a respectable country because of women empowerment.

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