A delegation of Aurat Foundation headed by Mahnaz Rahman visited the party offices of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party and Awami Tehreek on 24 Dec 2012 at Hyderabad and meet wih the party leaders Dr. Qader Magsi, leader of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party and Ayaz Latif Palijo, President Awami Tahreek to share the booklet of Aurat Foundations “Suggestion on Women’s Empowerment for Election Manifesto of Political Paries’,

Mahnaz Rahman Resident Director of AF-Kara gave a detailed brief about the Suggestions for Election Manifesto and requested to include these suggestions in its party’s manifesto.

Meetings with these parties were the most successful and these parties made commitments that the AF draft suggestions would be put in their manifestos and they would report to AF which of the suggestions they chose. During the meeting with Awami Tehreek, the second largest nationalist party of Sindh, AF’s advocacy caused two female members to be nominated for the general seat in the elections. The party even promised to pay the expenses of the election and registration form fees as well. Awami Tehreek requested the AF team to support the female candidates during the election campaign.