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NTS mismanagement led to paper leak in Dir NA sub-panel calls for assigning task of evaluating aspirants for govt posts to FPSC A sub-committee of the lower house of parliament has proposed that the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) should be assigned the task of conducting initial testing of the people applying for government jobs. However, the panel has clarified that this job should be assigned to the FPSC subject to strengthening of the commission with required human and financial resources.     The convener of the sub-committee, MNA Rana Iradat Sharif Khan, was briefing the Na...

Pak activists, experts term Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as 'eyewash' ANI | Updated: Dec 16, 2020 13:51 IST Islamabad [Pakistan], December 16 (ANI): Rights activists and constitutional experts in Pakistan termed the approved Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as useless and eyewash and ruled out the possibility of countering the menace through it. "Such legislation is a mere eyewash as it did not help in protecting the victims," said Sadia Bokhari of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) while talking to Dawn. She added that public hanging and castration could...

President Alvi Approves Anti-Rape Ordinance File photo. Courtesy PID New legislation calls for establishment of special courts to expedite trials of rape and sexual assault cases President Arif Alvi on Tuesday approved the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Ordinance, 2020 to help expedite trials of rape cases, as well as implement harsher punishments for anyone convicted of such offenses. Under the ordinance, special courts will be set up nationwide to expedite the trials of rape cases on priority basis. It calls for all cases to be resolved within four months and also mandates the establis...

President Alvi approves new anti-rape ordinance Special courts to be set up across Pakistan under the ordinance to expedite trials, cases of sexual abuse Protestors at the Karachi Press Club hold placards at a demonstration held against the motorway gang-rape incident. PHOTO: AFP/File ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi approved the government's "stringent" and "holistic" Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Ordinance, 2020 on Tuesday, to help expedite cases of sexual abuse against women and children. Under this ordinance, special courts are to be set up across the country to expedite trials a...

Orange the world December 10, 2020 Violence against women is rampant not only in Pakistan but around the world in various forms, be it domestic violence and abuse, sexual abuse and harassment, forced marriage, child marriage, human trafficking, cyber-bullying, acid attacks, female genital mutilation, etc. In fact, women face physical, psychological, and sexual violence in every sphere of life, whether they are at the workplace or on the street or in the market. The ‘In-Depth Study on All Forms of Violence against Women: Report of the Secretary-General, 2006’, mandated by General Assembl...