July 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Close to two dozen women politicians rule the TV screens every day on animated current affairs programmes, defending their parties, leaders and party policies more aggressively than their male counterparts.
Even when their party heads say or do something strange or outlandish, they consider it their duty to justify it and stop their rivals from point-scoring against their leaders. Some of these elected lawmakers are first-timers in parliament. As they are tasting the attractive side of public life for the first time, which has raised their profile, they display an exaggerated kind of belligerence.
They are trying to make everybody believe that they have quickly learnt the art of representing their parties at the legislative and public forums better than others. All the three main political forces – the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) – which mostly control the narrative specifically in the electronic media -- have nominated certain women politicians to participate in TV programmes to speak for them.