SANGHAR, March 8: Seminars were held and dramas were staged on Saturday in connection with the International Women’s Day in the district council hall and at the community centre of the Padri-jo-Goth, some six kilometres away from here.

These events were organised jointly by the Women Enterprises and Legal Aid Association, Kari Tas and Citizen Action Committee, Sanghar.

On the occasion, Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhary, provincial minister for law and parliamentary affairs, said that Islam had empowered and emancipated women, but these rights were not being implemented on one pretext or the other.

He further said that one cannot compare the Pakistani women with the women in the West. European women, he said, were depressed mentally while being psychologically oppressed.

Condemning the brutal tradition of Karo-kari, he said that it took four witnesses to punish a women for adultery.

Polygamy, without social and economic reasons, was an abuse of the women’s right.

Others, who spoke on the occasion, include Nasira Amin, Aslam Memon, Mir Hassan Sarewal and Allah Warayo Behan.

At the Padri-jo-Goth, Father Kene, Ms Rehana and many others spoke to the participants event held at the community centre there.

Father Kene said that religious teachings stressed on treating men and women equally.

Speakers, on the occasion, also condemned Karo-kari.

A drama was also staged to depict the discrimination against women in our society.