Dhaka, Dec. 1 -- The Jamaat-e-Islami's Dhaka Metropolitan South Secretary Shafiqul Islam Masud has said the proposal to reduce women's daily working hours to five is intended to "respect them".

He said party chief Shafiqur Rahman made the statement to show respect to women.

BNP Standing Committee Member Abdul Moyeen Khan, however, countered it by asking: "Is raising child only a mother's responsibility?"

They made these remarks in response to questions from journalists at the signing ceremony of the "Child Rights Manifesto", organised by UNICEF at the China-Bangladesh Friendship Conference Center in Dhaka on Monday.

At the event, representatives of 12 political parties, including the BNP and Jamaat, signed the 10-point manifesto prepa...