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Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami pledges to restore dignity for women

When women held signs and chanted slogans as they took part in the Women's March in Karachi, Pakistan in 2018. [Reuters]

About four million women in Pakistan’s Karachi are working in factories on a contract basis, devoid of basic rights and necessities.

Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman while addressing a women’s convention in Karachi said mothers, sisters, and daughters are deprived of basic amenities amid concerns of worsening Global Gender Gap Index.

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