"Im not saying our era was perfect, but the current era is worse," Humayun Mehmood

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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?

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