Hamaytullah Mayer is the District Nazim of Mardan, a highly conservative area of North West Frontier Province. He has been an active supporter of the campaign and has extended his support to its launch and to the campaign’s public seminars by making available the District Assembly Hall. At the campaign launch, he announced a ban of the practice Sawara (where women are exchanged to settle local disputes) in Mardan district. He directed police officials to take action not only against the concerned parties alone but to also arrest jirga members involved in such decisions.