PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani Tuesday said, “Our religion Islam gives unmatched respect, rights and status to women, but a handful of people are trying to create discrimination and hate between male and female through negative propaganda”.

Addressing as a chief guest during a function held here in connection with International Women Day at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, he said that being Muslim “we observe women day every day as we give respect to female as a mother, sister, daughter, wife, adding that life is incomplete without these precious relations”.

He said in our society a female is a doctor, police officer, nurse, educationist, lawyer, legislator and even in every sector she is playing her important role in every field of life, adding that Fatima Jinnah, Shaheed Benazir, Bhutto, Malala Yousafzai, Mariam Shaheed, Sameena Baig, Bilqis Begum, Arifa Karim, Tahira Qazi Shaheed were some of the Pakistani females who earned good name for the motherland and were well known and respected.

Mushtaq Ghani said that there was no bar on females in the society and they were free to participate in any field of life.

He said that at present the number of female legislators in KP assembly was 27, including some of the best legislators.

The PK assembly speaker singled out female students, advising them to concentrate on their studies to become a useful citizen of the country.