First Woman Bibi Asifa Bhutto Zardari met with First Woman of the Republic of Maldives Sajidha Mohamed at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad right this moment.
In the course of the assembly, the 2 First Women underscored the significance of girls’s empowerment, youth growth and higher people-to-people engagement as key pillars of Pakistan-Maldives bilateral relations.
Welcoming her Maldivian counterpart, Bibi Asifa Bhutto Zardari expressed the hope that Pakistan’s heat and hospitality would make her go to memorable and additional strengthen the longstanding bonds of friendship, mutual respect, shared values and Islamic brotherhood between the 2 international locations.
The First Woman expressed satisfaction over increasing bilateral cooperation in training, healthcare, tradition, youth growth and people-to-people exchanges.
Bibi Asifa Bhutto Zardari recommended First Woman Sajidha Mohamed’s distinguished skilled journey, notably her management position on the Maldives Meals and Drug Authority and her contributions to the general public well being response in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She additionally appreciated her initiatives to empower girls and youth, considerably scale back faculty dropouts and help weak communities by progressive initiatives.
The First Women agreed to strengthen mutual cooperation in girls’s management, training, expertise growth, tourism and hospitality, fashionable and cost-effective agriculture, entrepreneurship, public well being, social growth and youth empowerment.
Bibi Asifa Bhutto Zardari reaffirmed that girls’s empowerment, poverty alleviation and maternal and little one well being stay amongst her foremost priorities.
She highlighted the Benazir Revenue Assist Programme (BISP), launched in 2008 to hold ahead the imaginative and prescient of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, as Pakistan’s flagship social safety initiative, offering monetary help to thousands and thousands of weak households, notably girls.
She additionally outlined the transformative influence of the Benazir Nashonuma Programme in addressing malnutrition and childhood stunting in the course of the important first 1,000 days of life.
Each First Women emphasised the significance of nearer cooperation between related establishments and civil society organisations working for the welfare of girls, kids and youth.
Bibi Asifa Bhutto Zardari additionally introduced pink ribbons to the First Woman of the Maldives and members of her delegation as a gesture of solidarity and to boost consciousness about breast most cancers.
