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Apwa team to

attend Beijing

Conference

KARACHI: A 25-member delegation of All Pakistan Women's Association (Apwa) will attend the United Nations Conference on Women to be held in Beijing from August 30 to September 8.

This was stated by a spokesperson of Apwa in Karachi on Monday.

She said that the Apwa delegation would be led by its Executive Vice-President Begum Masudah Jawad.

It includes Mrs. Meherafroze Habib, Mrs. Jahan Ara F Hai, Mrs. Meher Kermani, Charmaine Hidayatullah, Mrs. Anis Zaidi, Mrs Sanobar Zaheer, Mrs. Ghazala Shabbir, Mrs. Sadia Sajjad, Mrs. Nusrat Maqbool Illahi, Dr. Gulshan Mirza, Mrs. Mariam Habib, Mrs. Rizwana Akram, Mrs Atia Faiz, Mrs. Shamsa Ali, Mrs. Suriya Hameedullah, Mrs. Shakeela Rashid, Rukhsana Yasmin, Mrs. Rubi Syed, Mrs. Nadeem Akbar Ali, Mrs. Subohi Haider, Mrs. Farrukh Nisar, Mrs. Iftekhar Shabbir and Mrs. Samina Siraj.

Apwa has consultative status of category B with the United Nations.-APP