Women from diverse backgrounds took a special inaugural trip on the BRT Peshawar Pink Bus Service to welcome the dedicated facility. Senator Rubina Naz, provincial ombudsperson Rubab Mehdi, Shazia Atta, secretary of the KPCSW, former member of the provincial assembly Rabia Basri, and Frontier College principal Dr Shaheen Umar attended, with lawyers, students and doctors.
They called it safe, reliable, quality transport shaped to women's travel needs across the city, and said it will ease daily commuting and access to education, employment and healthcare. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government launched the service to build a dignified public-transport setting that increases women's social and economic participation.