Women Development Ministry to establish more women centres
By Bushra Makhdoom

ISLAMABAD—Ministry of Women Development would establish more women centres throughout the country to provide relief to distress women, said sources in the ministry here on Wednesday.
The source said that these centres would be equipped with all facilities including free accommodation, free legal advice and vocational training to restore a respectable status for the suffered inmates back in the society.
The women, the source said, were contributing their valuable services towards national development and Women Development Ministry’s role had been instrumental to carry the trend forward, effectively.
The sources said that Ministry of Women Development successfully implemented some programmes like IT training programme for women councillors, Women’s Political School for capacity building of women councillors and the on-going project Community Campaign for women empowerment.
These programmes, the sources said, would help bring womenfolk into mainstream of development to expedite socio-economic development process for national prosperity.
Referring to the on-going ministry’s media campaign to prevent violenceagainst women, the sources said, it was going ahead successfully with all its aims and objectives.
The sources said most of the respondents of topic under the project “Agahi Zaroori Hai” had rejected the violence against women, which reflected the success of project.
Replying to a question, the sources rejected the impression created in wake of some news reports that the project might come to closure due to unavailability of funds.
“There is no paucity of funds and all projects were successfully beingfinanced with commitment to make womenfolk self-reliant for national prosperity”, the sources observed.