The President called upon the children to study the life of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on how selflessly he struggled hard for the creation of Pakistan.
Dr Alvi told the gathering that almost 40 percent pregnancies took place owing to non-availability of contraceptives which must also be thought of while devising the policies.
Addressing a Christmas function at Aiwan e Sadr, the president said Islamic teachings and Constitution of Pakistan had guaranteed the religious rights of all minorities.
The President emphasized that as restricted movement and scarcity of transport in lockdown led to difficulties, the similar Limitation Act was required to be applied on the representations filed with the President Secretariat.
The President said he had been told by the Governor State Bank that under the present government’s soft loans scheme, women were also being offered loans up to Rs. 5 million.
He expressed the hope that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two countries on cooperation in the field of education would greatly help in strengthening cultural linkages.
Chairing a meeting on financial inclusion of PWDs, at Aiwan-e-Sadr, he said that it was essential to bring differently-abled people (DAPs) into the mainstream and empower them economically.
The meeting took stock of the progress on decisions made for improving the accessibility infrastructure for persons with disabilities, said SBP statement here.
The president called for promoting tele-health to provide urgent medical advice to the women particularly on the disease like depression which had some taboos allied with them.
Earlier, President Dr. Arif Alvi inaugurated Coronavirus Heroes Wall – the wall built to pay tribute to those heroes who were in the vanguard of the fight against COVID-19.
He said as far as the 2018 general election was concerned, various independent surveys and opinion polls, including the Gallup Polls, had predicted the victory of PTI.
The President made these remarks while chairing a meeting regarding data collection on Breast Cancer in Pakistan, a press release issued by the President’s Media Office here said.