{"id":18545,"date":"2023-10-27T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/nawazs-remarks-against-women-criticised-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:32:00","slug":"nawazs-remarks-against-women-criticised-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/nawazs-remarks-against-women-criticised-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz\u2019s remarks against women criticised in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1783250\/comment-the-misogyny-in-our-leaders-words\">remarks against women<\/a> at his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1782790\">homecoming rally<\/a> came under fire in a Senate session on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz had compared PML-N\u2019s women supporters with PTI\u2019s \u2014 without naming the party \u2014 and implied that his supporters were more \u201cdecent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are our sisters? Look how respectfully our sisters are listening to this rally. There is no one dancing to music here. Do you understand what I am saying or not,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz\u2019s remarks were condemned by politicians like ex-PTI MNA Maleeka Bokhari and journalists alike.<\/p>\n<p>The matter reached the Senate, where PTI\u2019s Senator Walid Iqbal took aim at Nawaz\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal, while referring to the late PML-N senator Rana Maqbool, stated that he respected women and he should have taught his leader how to respect women.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1783250\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[MQM head] Altaf Hussain also talked against women and had to apologise later,\u201d Iqbal added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease do not make political statements,\u201d said Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not making a political statement,\u201d Iqbal replied.<\/p>\n<p>Sexism in Pakistan\u2019s political system is not new, nor is it new to the PML-N party.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, senior PML-N leader Khawaja Asif made a statement on the floor of parliament, using a derogatory reference for PTI\u2019s women members of parliament.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1191951\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A few years ago, he referred to a senior female PTI member as a \u201ctractor trolley\u201d. Instead of retracting his words in the face of backlash, he took complete ownership of what was said.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Sanaullah, while speaking to reporters outside the Punjab Assembly in 2018, made inappropriate comments about the women who attended the rally at Lahore\u2019s Minar-i-Pakistan, saying: \u201cThe women who attended the rally were not from honourable families because their dance moves implied where they had actually come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fawad Chaudhry described former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar as a \u201clow-IQ woman\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1686538\">whose<\/a> claim to fame lies in her handbag and sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times, there is only one pleasant example that comes to mind, when the PPP issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1745745\">show cause notice<\/a> to Nabil Gabol and asked for an explanation after he joked about rape.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"resolution-condemns-state-terrorism-violation-of-international-law-in-held-kashmir\" href=\"#resolution-condemns-state-terrorism-violation-of-international-law-in-held-kashmir\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Resolution condemns state terrorism, violation of international law in held Kashmir<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate also moved a resolution condemning the \u201cbrutal state terrorism and killing of the innocent Kashmiris\u201d by the Indian forces as well as the \u201cblatant violation of international laws\u201d in Indian occupied  Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis House strongly condemns the killing of thousands of innocent Kashmiris (who are martyred) in Indian Occupied Kashmir by Indian forces,\u201d the resolution reads, a copy of which is available with <em>Dawn.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution urged the international community for the expedited formation of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate the \u201cgross human rights violations\u201d in held Kashmir, as the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also recommended it.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution rejected the conduct of \u201cfake elections\u201d in India-held Kashmir by the Indian government, adding that these actions violated UN Security Council resolutions which stipulate that the final disposition of the Kashmir dispute would be made in accordance with the will of the locals through a free and impartial plebiscite to be conducted under the auspices of the UN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis House re-affirms its solidarity and commitment to the people of Indian Occupied Kashmir in their just struggle for their rights to self-determination and reiterates its continuing political, moral and diplomatic support,\u201d the resolution reads.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif\u2019s remarks against women at his homecoming rally came under fire in a Senate session on Friday. Nawaz had compared PML-N\u2019s women supporters with PTI\u2019s \u2014 without naming the party \u2014 and implied that his supporters were more \u201cdecent\u201d. \u201cWhere are our sisters? Look how respectfully our sisters are listening to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/271550019881ed4.jpg?r=155003","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}