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title="English-language text"><span lang="en"><span style="font-size:200%;"><span class="Nastaliq" dir="rtl" title="Nastaliq" style="font-family: 'Jameel Noori Nastaleeq', 'Urdu Typesetting', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu Draft', 'Hussaini Nastaleeq', 'AlQalam Taj Nastaleeq', IranNastaliq, 'Awami Nastaliq', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta3', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta2', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta1', 'Nafees Nastaleeq', 'Nafees Nastaleeq v1.01', 'Pak Nastaleeq', 'PDMS_Jauhar', 'Alvi Lahori Nastaleeq'; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal;">ویمن ڈیموکریٹک فرنٹ</span></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">2018</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Women's organization</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Focus</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_feminism" 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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ismat_Shahjahan" title="Ismat Shahjahan">Ismat Shahjahan</a><sup id="cite_ref-first_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wdfpk.org">wdfpk<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Women Democratic Front</b> (<b>WDF</b>) is a Pakistani independent <a href="/wiki/Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist">socialist</a>-<a href="/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist">feminist</a> organization. It was founded in the federal capital <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a> on March 8, 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by hundreds of delegates from <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa" class="mw-redirect" title="Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-first_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WDF aims to unite women across the country to build a socialist feminist<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> movement to transform the International Women's Day celebration in Pakistan into real means of action.<sup id="cite_ref-first_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The manifesto and constitution of WDF strives to a broad-based struggle against capitalism, patriarchy, religious fascism, national oppression and Pakistan's authoritarian political system.<sup id="cite_ref-www.pakistantoday.com.pk_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.pakistantoday.com.pk-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Front was inaugurated on <a href="/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a>, 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when a large number of students, working women, intellectuals and political activists gathered for <a href="/wiki/Aurat_Azadi_March" title="Aurat Azadi March">Aurat Azadi March</a>, 2018. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women_Democratic_Front&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WDF is a women's organization based in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> which aims to build an organic socialist-feminist mass resistance movement by bringing together struggles of working-class women (doing mental or physical labour) from rural and urban areas. WDF adopts democratic and peaceful and means of resistance.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Foundation">Foundation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women_Democratic_Front&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Foundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WDF was formally established as a resistance movement on <a href="/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a> International Working on March 8, 2018, in <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a> at a foundation congress by delegates from provincial units which were functional since 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The congress laid the foundation of <a href="/wiki/Aurat_Azadi_March" title="Aurat Azadi March">Aurat Azadi March</a> (Women's Freedom March) in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Europe_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Europe-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ideology">Ideology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women_Democratic_Front&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ideology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WDF considers violence, discrimination and patriarchal oppression as part of overall oppression and exploitation of the masses in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> on the basis of class, gender and nation – pillars of capitalism, imperialism, feudalism and religious extremism. WDf is committed to continue its struggle until the women's right to life, their emancipation from all forms of oppression, progress and peace; and to establish people's democracy in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>. Their ideology is described by socialist-feminism and history of women's political struggles.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organizational_structure">Organizational structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women_Democratic_Front&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Organizational structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>WDF is a federal organization with country-wide presence as four national units in <a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Punjab,_Pakistan" title="Punjab, Pakistan">Punjab</a>/<a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>; <a href="/wiki/Baluchistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Baluchistan">Baluchistan</a> and a federal unit. WDF also aims to make units in the disputed territories of <a href="/wiki/Gilgit-Baltistan" title="Gilgit-Baltistan">Gilgit-Baltistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a> to organize women of these areas making them part of the movement.<sup id="cite_ref-Leadership_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leadership-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WDF has following intertwined elected structures: </p> <ul><li>Congress:<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a political structure for political and ideological decision making</li> <li>Council: an organizational structure consisting of a secretariat called the "Cabinet" for implementing decisions for day-to-day affairs</li></ul> <p>These structures exist at three levels of district, federal and provincial/national levels. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leadership">Leadership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women_Democratic_Front&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Federal Cabinet of WDF comprises five members: </p><p>President: <a href="/wiki/Ismat_Shahjahan" title="Ismat Shahjahan">Ismat Shahjahan</a><sup id="cite_ref-Europe_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Europe-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>General Secretary: <a href="/wiki/Alya_Bakhshal" title="Alya Bakhshal">Alya Bakhshal</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Secretary Information and Publishing: <a href="/wiki/Tooba_Syed" title="Tooba Syed">Tooba Syed</a><sup id="cite_ref-www.pakistantoday.com.pk_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.pakistantoday.com.pk-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Secretary Education and Art: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shahzadi_Hussain&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shahzadi Hussain (page does not exist)">Shahzadi Hussain</a><sup id="cite_ref-Leadership_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leadership-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Secretary Finance: Lubna Kifayat </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jalila_Haider" title="Jalila Haider">Jalila Haider</a>, one of the provincial president of WDF,<sup id="cite_ref-Leadership_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leadership-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from <a href="/wiki/Quetta" title="Quetta">Quetta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a> was named in the <a href="/wiki/100_Women_(BBC)" title="100 Women (BBC)">100 Women</a> in 2019<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nargis Afsheen Khattak (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter of WDF)<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women_Democratic_Front&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit 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