{"id":831,"date":"2016-01-08T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningpost.today\/eng\/?p=831"},"modified":"2016-01-08T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T05:13:00","slug":"first-women-assembly-formed-in-swat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/first-women-assembly-formed-in-swat\/","title":{"rendered":"First women assembly formed in Swat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MINGORA: Tabassum Adnan was elected the first speaker and Ms Sajida deputy speaker of the first women assembly of Swat here on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The election for speaker and deputy speaker of the assembly was held in pleasant environment in which members of women assembly used their right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The women assembly was formed under the Aurat Foundation\u2019s voice and accountability programme, Awaz, with women\u2019s representations from all 67 union councils of Swat district.<\/p>\n<p>The women assembly has 33 members, including 30 on general seats and three additional seats \u2013 one each reserved for minorities, transgender and disabled person.<\/p>\n<p>Tehsil nazim Ikram Khan administered oath to the elected office-bearers and hoped they would work sincerely for the uplift of women rights in Swat. He said that the assembly should focus on women issues and work on them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNurturing women to bring them on leadership positions and create support base for legislative demands and their implementation are major objectives of the women assembly,\u201d said Nisar Alam, district coordinator of Aurat Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Tabassum Adnan vowed to fight for the rights of women through the assembly\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are faced with child marriages, women trafficking and violence against women, so we will try to resolve all such issues,\u201d she told Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Nasim Akhtar, one of the members, said that formation of the women assembly was a positive step towards women\u2019s empowerment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINGORA: Tabassum Adnan was elected the first speaker and Ms Sajida deputy speaker of the first women assembly of Swat here on Thursday. The election for speaker and deputy speaker of the assembly was held in pleasant environment in which members of women assembly used their right to vote. The women assembly was formed under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}