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| Senate passes bills against rape, honour killing |
| 2015-03-03 |
| [DAWN] The Upper House on Monday passed four bills including anti-honour killings and anti-rape laws. The Senate passed Anti-Rape Laws (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2014, and Anti-Honour Killings Laws (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2014, moved by Pakistain Peoples Party's (PPP) Senator Syeda Sughra Imam. Senator Sughra Imam said that honour killings are common throughout the country, claiming the lives of hundreds of victims every year. She quoted the Aurat Foundation's statistics, saying that 432 women were reportedly killed in the name of honour in Pakistain in 2012, 705 in 2011, 557 in 2010, 604 in 2009 and 475 women were killed in 2008. Imam said the above figures do not include unreported cases or, indeed, the number of men who are often killed alongside women in the name of honour. "In order to deter and prevent honour killings in Pakistain it is necessary to amend the Pakistain Penal Code, 1860, and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to address the loopholes and lacunae in the existing laws," the PPP Senator said. Imam had tabled the bill in Senate on February 24, 2014. "In Pakistain, rape cases are reported and registered, however, the conviction rates of the accused are abysmally low. According to the figures revealed in Senate, in the last five years for instance, of the 103 reported rape cases registered in the Islamabad Capital Territory none of the culprits or accused have been convicted or brought to justice," the PPP Senator said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 This will never fly with the "jirga". |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2015-03-03 12:00 |
| #2 Exactly, why should special laws be passed because this seems to be acceptable in muslim laws? This is pretty much saying they are a different class of ppl because of their religious affiliation. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-03 10:10 |
| #1 They were legal before? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-03 07:36 |