MANSEHRA: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Sunday began reorganising its divisional, district and tehsil chapters across Hazara division to ensure greater inclusion of women in leadership positions.
“We have reorganised our divisional chapter and appointed a woman as senior vice-president. The same model will now be followed at the district and tehsil levels in eight districts of Hazara,” Malik Mohammad Farooq, PPP’s divisional president in Hazara, told reporters here.
He said the party’s central chairman, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, had directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter to ensure women’s representation in all tiers of the organisation.
“We have inducted Naila Shahzad from Haripur as the senior vice president in our divisional body, along with Waheed Afzal Golra from Mansehra and Syed Jafar Hussain Shah from Abbottabad in consultation with the party’s provincial president and general secretary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” Farooq said.
in the first phase, he added, the district and tehsil bodies of Haripur, Mansehra and Abbottabad would be reorganised to accommodate women workers in key positions.
“Women constitute over 50 per cent of the population, and excluding them from leadership roles would mean depriving both the country and the party of their potential to bring positive social change,” he went on to add.