Pakistan's National Assembly has unanimously approved a resolution to publicly execute perpetrators of child sexual abuse.
The resolution was presented by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Muhammad Khan at a National Assembly meeting on Friday.
Earlier in the National Assembly, the bill passed in the name of Zainab on the protection of children suggested a life sentence for those who committed such a crime.
It is to be noted that the demand for the execution of the perpetrators of sexual abuse of children was strongly sought after the seven-year-old Zainab of Kasur, Punjab, was killed after he was sexually assaulted.
The resolution, presented by the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, states that the prime minister wants children to be sexually tortured and sentenced to death for the culprits involved in murder cases.
Ali Mohammad Khan said that when the bill was presented to the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Human Rights, the Pakistan Peoples Party opposed the death sentence and suggested a life sentence, after which the Standing Committee The recommendations were adopted in the National Assembly.
It is important to note that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, is the chairman of this committee.
The Minister said that after the passage of this bill from the National Assembly, the bill is now in the Senate but it has not been approved from there, so after passing this resolution, it should be made part of the bill.
He said that the incidence of sexual violence against underage children in the society is increasing alarmingly, which is causing not only children to become insecure but also their parents and relatives are in serious concern.
Ali Mohammed Khan said it was now imperative to make a mark for those involved in such serious crimes.
When the state government voted on the resolution in the House, the Pakistan People's Party opposed it, while the largest opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-N and Jamaat-e-Islam voted in favor of the resolution.
Pakistan Peoples Party Member National Assembly and former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said that Pakistan is committed to UN resolutions on the death penalty, so their party cannot support the death sentence.
It should be noted that the PPP had stopped the execution of death sentence in its last term.
Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari wrote on Twitter after the resolution was approved: "The resolution of public execution that was approved in the National Assembly today was with the consent of all the parties and it was not a resolution proposed by the government but an individual. Is the process. Many of us oppose it. '
https://twitter.com/ShireenMazari1/status/1225693040481714176
Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry also reacted strongly on Twitter, calling the resolution an expression of extremism.
https://twitter.com/fawadchaudhry/status/1225687489030938625
MP Soomro, a journalist on parliamentary affairs, says that after the resolution is approved, it is likely that the bill will come back to the National Assembly.
He said that the resolution has political status in time but legal status cannot be made unless there is a legislature on it.
MB Soomro said the resolution was presented when interim questions were being raised in the National Assembly. He said the rolls were not suspended before the resolution was presented.
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