PPP condemns roughing up of women protestors, activists

Islamabad—Pakistan Peoples Party has condemned the roughing up of women workers and elected members of Parliament by male members of the security forces and lodging them in lock ups with males in police stations.
In a statement Friday PPP Senator Rukhsana Zuberi said that it was most condemnable that female political workers were so maltreated by male police personnel and booked under anti terrorism laws.
Amongst others those who have been arrested, jailed and now under house arrest are PPP Punjab information Secretary and MPA, Farzana Raja, Yasmin Misbah ur Rehman MPA, Mehreen Anwar Raja MNA, Uzma Zahid Bokhari MPA, Fayza Malik MPA, Dr. Nadia Aziz MPA., Saghira Islam MPA, Talat Shakoor, and Bilum Hasnain MNA.
For two nights the arrested women were not allowed to sleep and were subjected to harassment and torture. They were moved from one place to another to ensure that the party and their relatives could not reach them.
The PPP has demanded that all the women workers should be released immediately and persecution and harassment should come to end forthwith.
She also demanded strict action against the male police personnel whomisbehaved with the women protestors.
It is highly deplorable that the state apparatus is being used to target innocent political workers, Senator Rukhsana Zuberi said.—Online