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January 17, 2021
ISLAMABAD: While declaring the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) responsible for suicide of ex-CDA official Brig (R) Asad Munir, Deputy Chairman Senate Salim Mandviwalla said the NAB should stop people to harass.
“The facts of suicide will be brought before the people why Brig (R) Asad Munir committed the suicide,” he said while talking to the newsmen here Saturday after visiting the residence of Brig (R) Asad Munir who committed suicide in 2019.
Mandviwalla said the NAB could not stop its struggle against its harassment of the people in the name of the accountability. “I will go to every corner of the country to meet with the victims of the NAB and will also visit the residence of Accountant General (AG) Khurram Hamayun, who had also committed the suicide due to NAB harassment. I had already stated on the floor of the Parliament that not only the Parliament but also everyone is afraid of the NAB,” he said.
English By Ayesha Tanzeem Share on Facebook Print this page ISLAMABAD - Britain’s BBC’s Urdu Service Friday ended its contract for its half-hour, five-day-a-week television news show on Pakistan’s AAJ News channel, due to what the BBC said was continued interference in its programs.
“We have experienced interference in our News bulletins since October 2020 and gave AAJ TV ample time to return the program to air,” said a statement from the director of World Service Group, Jamie Angus.
‘Since this interference continued, despite efforts in good faith on both sides, the BBC had no alternative but to end the partnership with immediate effect,” the statement said.
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Regressive and patriarchal laws is one thing, unjust and inhuman quite another. However, as per the reports that emerge every now and then of rape victims being subjected to a torturous virginity test, it seems Pakistan s failed judicial system is all of them.
Of the marginal fraction of rape cases that reach the police and finally the courts, the rape victims are not only judged or blamed but tortured as well. As for justice, the traumatic two-finger test ensures that it is often denied to them.
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As per yet another heart-rending report that s come to the fore, a man convicted of raping a 15-year-old in a village outside the city of Faisalabad was freed on appeal in 2014 after the judge took into account results of a two-finger test. Reason? The uncorroborated statement of (the victim) may not be relied upon as it came from the mouth of a spoilt girl, said the judge.
Farm workers seek social security, welfare funds
Speakers at woman agricultural workers convention calls for implementation of 2019 law passed in this regard
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HYDERABAD:
Human rights activists and women agricultural farm workers have demanded implementation of the Sindh Women Agricultural Workers Act 2019, and for covering these workers through social security and workers welfare funds. They were speaking at the Women Agriculture Workers Convention, organised by the Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) and Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in Matiari district on Tuesday.
Syed Nadeem Shah of the Sindh Abadgar Board, a lobbying group of farmers, lamented that a lack of government attention and adequate policies is plunging the agriculture sector in financial straits. The role of women in the agriculture sector is pivotal but their socio-economic conditions are very poor, he acknowledged, emphasising on the need for government provided protection for the
January 13, 2021
On December 15 last year (2019), President Arif Alvi approved the Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 which is said to be in line with the constitution of Pakistan and also international treaties.
The government says that the legislation will ensure expeditious trial of cases of rape against women and children and will also sanction punishment of chemical castration of convicted rapists.
Chemical castration requires the use of a drug to diminish testosterone levels and will be applied as a measure to reduce recidivism among sex offenders. It is believed that it would help decrease the risk of convicted sex offenders repeating their crimes. The castration procedure has been used in many of the American states to reduce deviant sexual drive, fantasies and behaviour. First of all, California in 1996 and then other states including Florida, Louisiana and Wisconsin made castration a provision in their laws. In 2019, Alabama included a chemical castration measure into law. Beside