LARKANA, Nov 18: Speakers at a seminar said that ego and ignorance were the key causes of violence against women.

Sindh Educational Development Society Larkana organised the seminar “Violence against women is inhuman — stop it” recently.

Former director education Ms Tahira Baloch presided over the seminar.

Speaking on the occasion she said that ego and ignorance were the key causes of violence against women and the perpetrators of violence could never live with peace as they always dreaded by their family members and were always deprived of real affection and trust.

She said that in many television dramas women were shown physically beating husbands which was far from the ground realities, such kind of misleading and wrong portrait of women must be stopped as it tarnished the image of womenfolk.

Principal Special Education School Amanullah Jakhro said that in agrarian societies the abilities of women had been dwarfed by putting her in chains of outdated customs and traditions.

President of Sindh Educational Development Society Mukhtiar Samo said that a home where women feared violence against her by any male family member could never flourish because only a confident woman was the source of bringing a family and home the real happiness.

Mehtab Gurhamani said that woman in all relations commanded respect but the relations of mother, sister and daughter were matchless and added that many women were deprived of their share from inherited property by their male relatives.

Zulifkar Khoso, Faiza Soomro, Arslan Hyder Baloch, Naveed Khokhar, Shaheen Shaikh, Bakhtawar Gurhamani, Majib Samo, Fawad Ali and Abdul Hafiz and others also spoke on the occasion.

POLICE: The District Police Officer Larkana on Saturday night suspended the SHO Market police station Khalil Massan and two policemen, Assadullah and Ghulam Qadir on the charges of increased crime in the limits of their police station.