‘Shaheed Marium an inspiration for all Pakistani women’

Karachi
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, daughter of former president Asif Ali Zardari, met with family members of Shaheed Marium Mukhtiar, Pakistan’s first female fighter jet pilot who embraced martyrdom in a training jet crash earlier this week, a statement read on Friday.
Aseefa visited her residence in Malir Cantonment where she offered Fateha for the departed and condoled with the bereaved family.
Talking to the father of the martyred, Mukhtiar Ahmed Shaikh, and other family members, she paid glowing tributes to Shaheed Marium and said that her martyrdom was a cause of pride for the entire Pakistani nation, especially the women.
“Marium has become an inspiration for all women in Pakistan,” said Aseefa.
Aseefa said it was the mission of her mother Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto to empower the women of Pakistan so that they could play their due role alongside men for the development, progress and defence of the country.
The youngest Bhutto-Zardari, who was accompanied by Sindh Assembly Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza, also assured Marium's family of efforts to have a school named in the martyr's honour.
Mukhtiar was martyred when a PAF training aircraft crashed in Kachha Gujrat, in the suburbs of Mianwali.
The PAF FT-7PG flown by Squadron Leader Saqib Abbasi and co-pilot Marium Mukhtiar was on a routine operational training mission when it encountered an in-flight emergency during the final stages of the mission, said a PAF statement issued after the tragic incident.