Gilgit-Baltistan govt takes steps to empower women: Sadia Danish

ISLAMABAD: Tourism Advisor Gilgit-Baltistan, Sadia Danish has said that the government of Gilgit-Baltistan has taken a number of steps to empower the women and necessary legislation would be made in the assembly to protect them.

Talking to a private news channel, she said that the provincial government had established an institute named 'Women Development' which was providing vocational training to them.

The advisor said a separate office of NADRA would be established soon to facilitate women.

She said that the Pakistan Peoples Party government had empowered the women through the passage of Women's Protection Bill.

She said that women were playing a pivotal role in the economic growth of the country.

The government had started various development programmes, including training centres and women skill development centres and hundreds of women of Gilgit-Baltistan were getting benefits from them, she added.