"Im not saying our era was perfect, but the current era is worse," Humayun Mehmood
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00The situation in KP is also not that good.
00:03If we talk about the policies and ministries,
00:07we don't see a woman governor,
00:10we don't see a woman in important positions.
00:13Maybe a deputy speaker is a woman in KP.
00:16People's Party's credentials are much better in this matter.
00:19First Prime Minister, then speaker,
00:23then foreign minister.
00:25Women are put in empowered positions.
00:27I don't think there is a lot of competition in this matter.
00:31In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful.
00:34I think you wanted to say that
00:38the Prime Minister is only a speaker,
00:41not a character.
00:43As you said, there are 3 out of 54.
00:47We had probably 75.
00:4910 were in the middle.
00:51There were 10 women
00:54who were either ministers or state ministers.
00:57Most of them were full ministers.
01:00I will list the names.
01:01Shirin Mazari, Zartaj Gul,
01:03Zubaida Jalal, Fahmida Mirza,
01:05Firdaus Ashikwan, Sania Nishtar,
01:07and Malika Bukhari.
01:12She was the money secretary of Law and Justice.
01:14She was not a minister.
01:15Zartaj Gul was also a minister of state.
01:16She was a minister of state.
01:18I will tell you everything.
01:19These were the 10 women who were in the middle.
01:22This comes to at least 12% or 13%
01:26of the total numbers.
01:28Number 2.
01:29In our two governments,
01:32our two deputy speakers were females.
01:37We did all of this.
01:40We tried to balance everything.
01:44It is fun when we talk about
01:49what should happen to women.
01:52We saw what happened to women in the last three years.
01:55How many of these women are in jail?
01:58When the court released a woman 10 times,
02:03she was arrested 10 times under the 3MPO.
02:08We saw that today,
02:10Barrister Rakeel was here for a while
02:15when Senator Ron Abbas spoke.
02:18He was in their room.
02:20He was there.
02:22He dragged the women by the sheets.
02:25We saw all the televisions.
02:28They were tortured.
02:31In our country,
02:34we have seen how they talk about giving women respect.
02:39If we leave aside Pakistan's Law and Justice,
02:46Pakistan is the second-worst country in the world.
02:53According to the Economist Intelligence Unit,
02:58Pakistan is declared a country with more democracy
03:03than the Marshall Law era in Pakistan.
03:09At that time,
03:11Pakistan was given 9-2 points.
03:13It was under 4 points.
03:15It was an authoritarian regime.
03:17In 2023-2024,
03:19Pakistan got 3.25 points.
03:21Today, it is 2.85 or 2.84.
03:24They have become so bad.
03:27I am not saying that our time was good.
03:31Our time was bad.
03:33Pakistan has always been a hybrid democracy.
03:39Pakistan has always been in 4.3, 4.2, 4.4.
03:42The summary of what you are saying is that
03:46they have made the situation worse.
03:50Mr. Barrister is a barrister.
03:54He is a minister of Law and Justice.
04:00Article 59 states how the Senate is constituted.
04:07It states that the Senate should have 96 seats.
04:11This is how the Senate is constituted.
04:14Article 60 states that the Supreme Parliament
04:19is constituted by the Constitution.
04:22The Constitution states that
04:25the election of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman
04:28cannot be held until the Senate is duly constituted.
04:33Even today, the Senate of Pakistan is not duly constituted.
04:38But, Doctor, under this Senate,
04:40you take part in the legislation.
04:43Look, look, listen to me.
04:45There is legislation.
04:47Wait a minute.
04:49Whatever is happening in the Senate,
04:52is a part of that process.
04:54But, I have raised this every time.
04:56Even today, in the Senate,
04:58the day the oath was being taken,
05:00again, this is about law and justice,
05:02the day the oath was being taken,
05:04I stood up and told the Chairman,
05:06I said, Chairman, your oath is not right.
05:09He said, how is it not right?
05:11I said, Mr. Ishaq Dar is taking your oath.
05:13He did not have his own oath.
05:15How can he take an oath from you?
05:17The Minister of Law at that time,
05:19he said, no, we took his oath a week ago.
05:22What did he do?
05:24What method is this?
05:25We took our own oath.
05:27We took our oath in the drawing room,
05:29in the bathroom, where else?