Women empowerment among Pakistan's top priorities Shazia Marri.

Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Shazia Marri Wednesday said that women's empowerment was among the top priorities in Pakistan.

She was addressing the Fifth Annual Reykjavik Global Forum Women Leadership in Iceland. The federal minister Shazia Marri is representing Pakistan in Fifth Annual Reykjavik Global Forum Women Leadership along with MNA Shaista Pervaiz. In her speech, Shazia Marri said that she hailed from a flood-affected district in Sindh province and highlighted that she herself and five other women Ministers are in the Federal Cabinet of Pakistan, which reflects women empowerment in Pakistan.

The minister informed the forum that she was coming from a country that was facing unprecedented floods due to historic rains which Pakistan had never experienced before. She highlighted that 33 million people were displaced due to flooding, a population of more than the total population of many countries around the world.

She underscored that there were around 650...