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Close of women participants waving flags of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) at \"Empowered Women - Stronger Pakistan\" rally2. Mid of women activists waving party flags to the tune of the MQM party anthem 3. Top shot with left pan...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Close of women participants waving flags of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) at \"Empowered Women - Stronger Pakistan\" rally\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of women activists waving party flags to the tune of the MQM party anthem \u003cbr/\u003e3. Top shot with left pan showing thousands of female participants and activists at the MQM rally waving party flags \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of MQM party flag with women activists clapping \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of MQM leaders waving to the crowd as they line up on stage \u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of stage with the rally slogan written (English) \"Empowered Women - Strong Pakistan\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Female activists holding photograph of MQM chief Altaf Hussain, while chanting (Urdu) \"Long Live Muttahida\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of female activist shouting (Urdu) \"Long Live Altaf\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Women activists dressed in white shouting slogans about the empowerment and liberation of women \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Faisal Sabzwari, Member of Sindh Provincial Assembly, and MQM leader: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Certainly, it's a statement. It's a political statement; where women are being suppressed in the name of religion, in the name of customs, in the name of tribal customs and precedents; in the name of so-called patriotism where women aren't allowed to vote even in certain constituencies of Pakistan even by the most liberally claimed political parties. Here, the MQM is gathering hundreds of thousands of women, poor women, down-trodden women, middle class women. And they are together and they are giving a political statement under the leadership and patronage of Mr. Altaf Hussain that this Pakistan is ours; that this religion is ours. We are here to stay; we are here to survive. Every legislation has to be women-friendly. Every act of the government has to be women-friendly. This is high time that women should be empowered. And who is the torch-bearer: MQM and Mr Altaf Hussain.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of crowd at the rally chanting (Urdu) \"The answer to every question: Altaf, Altaf!\" \u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of rally participants chanting slogan\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of large portrait of Altaf Hussain, chief of the MQM, who is living in self-imposed exile in London\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of street theatre performance on stage highlighting violence committed against women and other such evils \u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of women activists at the rally applauding the performance of street theatre \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Gabol, Sindh Minister for Human Rights: \u003cbr/\u003e\"No, this has got nothing to do with the election. This is just something for the women, to attract this women towards this. And we need to give them their rights, which they are not aware of.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of Quaid-e-Azam mausoleum with rally participants spilling into the area outside main ground\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saman Jaffrey, MQM Supporter: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Woman is the full circle. She is the centre point where things start from. And if you want to make a stronger country, stronger nation, than you have to have stronger women with you.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of rally with supporters holding large framed photograph of Altaf Hussain \u003cbr/\u003e20. Wider shot of rally\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide top shot of rally\u003cbr/\u003e22. Pakistan Rangers paramilitary surveillance helicopter flying overhead\u003cbr/\u003eMore than a hundred thousand women gathered at a political rally in Karachi on Sunday, in what organisers claimed was the largest gathering of women in Pakistan's history.\u003cbr/\u003eThe rally entitled \"Empowered Women - Stronger Pakistan\" brought together female activists and supporters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party.\u003cbr/\u003eThe MQM claimed that more than half a million women attended the rally, and local media reported up to a (m) million participants.\u003cbr/\u003eThe exact number could not be independently verified.\u003cbr/\u003eA sea of women waving the party's red, green and white flag shouted slogans in support of the party leader Altaf Hussain, who has been living in exile in London for the last two decades.\u003cbr/\u003eHussain addressed the crowds via telephone, and was greeted by a deafening cheer.\u003cbr/\u003eHis speech focused on the liberation and empowerment of women, which he said could make Pakistan one of the strongest countries in the world.\u003cbr/\u003eHe condemned the so-called 'black laws' used against women that condone or fail to address honour killings and repeated domestic violence.\u003cbr/\u003eFaisal Sabzwari, a member of Sindh Provincial Assembly, and part of the MQM leadership said the rally represented a strong political statement.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Women are being suppressed in the name of religion, in the name of customs, in the name of tribal customs and precedents; in the name of so-called patriotism where women aren't allowed to vote even in certain constituencies of Pakistan even by the most liberally claimed political parties,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Every legislation has to be women-friendly. Every act of the government has to be women-friendly. This is high time that women should be empowered,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eThe event follows a series of rallies held by a range of political parties in the grounds of Karachi's Quaid-e-Azam mausoleum ahead of upcoming elections.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Nadia Gabol, Sindh Minister for Human Rights, claimed Sunday's rally was different.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This has got nothing to do with the election. This is just something for the women, to attract this women towards this. And we need to give them their rights, which they are not aware of,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eWomen are very poorly represented in Pakistani politics, and face legislation that does not provide adequate support for victims of domestic violence and honour killings.\u003cbr/\u003eThe MQM party promises to fight such laws and allow women a stronger voice within Pakistani society and politics.\u003cbr/\u003eRally participant and MQM supporter Saman Jaffrey said the only way for progress to be made was to give women a more influential role.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Woman is the full circle. 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