Karachi:The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution, eulogizing a social worker, Ghulam Sughra Solangi, whose services in education and health had been recognized internationally.
The Law Minister, Ayaz Soomro, told the legislators that the provincial government would recommend to President Asif Ali Zardari to give the Pride of Performance award to Ms Solangi.

The mover of the resolution, Marvi Rashdi, said that when Ms Solangi, who hailed from Khairpur, was divorced in 1993, she vowed to become literate and forced her children into teaching her. Later, she also managed to establish an NGO for the welfare of women by collecting Rs10 from each person in the village.

The Minister for Works and Services, Manzoor Wasan, said that all the women in Arif Solangi village in the Kotdiji taluka had now become literate with the help from Sughra Solangi.

Wasan said Ms Sughra was from his constituency and that he would host a reception in her honour when she returned from the USA where she received the International Women of Courage award from the US First Lady, Michelle Obama, for her outstanding performance.

Power minister, Shazia Marri, said Sughra Solangi had been a victim of the practice of child marriage as she was married at 12.

“She became an outcast socially when she was divorced,” Marri said, adding that even her brothers disowned her.

The minister said that Ms Solangi became the first graduate in her village.

Marri said that Ms Solangi’s efforts in the field of women’s education and health should be treated as a case study by the academics.

Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said Sughra Solangi was among the 10 women of the world who were given the international award, and it was a matter of happiness that she belonged to Sindh.The news