Writ petition: Court changed opposite child work laws
LAHORE : Enforcement of child work laws and a appointment of a Child Protection Welfare Bureau’s director-general have been challenged in a Lahore High Court.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Andleeb Abbas has filed a command petition, contending that a business arch should be from Provincial Management Services or District Management Group. The obligatory head, Fatima Sheikh, is from a information group.
The postulant by Advocate Sheraz Zaka submitted a supervision had unsuccessful to make a supplies of Employment of Children Act, 1991 and a Neglected and Destitute Children Act, 2004.
Under a practice of children act, a age of child is mentioned as 14 years since underneath a Punjab Neglected and Destitute Children Law, a age of child is mentioned as 18 years. Under Article 25A of a Constitution, a age of child is mentioned as adult to 16 years. The postulant contended a supervision should be destined to trigger legislative supplies to mislay a discrepancies in laws.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 27th, 2016.
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