Mukhtiar Shaheen, a resident of Mari Indus, Mianwali District, Punjab Province, Pakistan, is a social worker who has been helping women’s problems for the past 20 years.
Speaking to Independent Urdu, Mukhtiar Shaheen said that it was in 2003 when my father was drinking tea at a hotel that a few people came to him.
He placed the newspaper in front of my father and said, “Look, your daughter’s picture has been published in the newspaper, but it is not our culture that the pictures of our sisters and daughters are published in the newspaper and people go around looking at them.”
On this, my father said that women also have rights, if a woman works in the circle, there is no restriction.
The women of our area are also in politics and their pictures are published in newspapers. I have full faith in my daughter and in a conservative area like Mianwali, she is happy to work for women.’
Since 2003, Mukhtiar Shaheen has set up an organization called ‘Norwomen Welfare Organization’ which helps women by teaching sewing, embroidery, computer courses, handicrafts and other skills.
In 2013, Mukhtiar Shaheen started the work of making ID cards and B-forms for children to give women a share in inheritance under his help, he faced many difficulties.
She says that people used to say that ‘we will not allow our women to go to the NADRA office and sit in front of a man and have their picture taken, nor will we make their identity cards.’
After several meetings and guidance with the concerned men and women, the demand of these men was to send the NADRA van here, upon which Mukhtiar Shaheen requested the NADRA officials to send the mobile van to the area, which was accepted. .
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Mukhtiar Shaheen says that after a lot of consultation in the area, a few women agreed to get ID cards, after that I went to various union councils in the area to encourage women and their men and told them about the importance of ID cards. When people were informed, they gradually agreed.’
Mukhtar Shaheen says that ‘we also made an identity card of a woman in Khaduzai area of Isa Khel, whose eldest daughter was 24 years old, the second one was 22 years old and the third girl was 18 years old and her mother did not have an identity card. was
‘I went to their house and told them to make their identity cards, it is very important, so their men said that we will never send our women to NADRA office.
“We are bound by veil, but I met them four or five times and convinced them and informed them about the importance of identity card. On this, these men said that if the Nadra van comes closest to our house, then we will get identity card. will make
‘On which I requested the NADRA officials to send an identity card mobile van to the area, it was approved and they came to the threshold of these women’s houses in the NADRA van and made their own identity cards.’
Mukhtar Shaheen said that in our area, it is not considered good for women to sit with men and do community sessions or to inform them about something, so we face a lot of problems.
Out of 56 union councils of Mianwali district, Mukhtiar Shaheen has worked in making identity cards for women in 43 union councils and has made more than 15,000 identity cards so far.
This has enabled women to benefit from various government programs including Beneficiary Income Support, Baitul-Mal and Zakat programs, which have women’s identity cards. They even get an inheritance share in the property.
Mukhtiar Shaheen says, ‘If the thalassemia patients and pregnant women in the area need blood, I also help them with blood donations. I try to ensure that the women of our area get their right.’
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2024-05-09 12:58:23
