Parliament passes bills opposite rape, honour killings
ISLAMABAD: As partial of pro-women legislation, a Parliament unanimously upheld on Thursday a anti-honour and anti-rape bills.
Under a new law, kin of a plant would usually be means to atonement a torpedo of collateral punishment, though they would still face a imperative life judgment of twelve-and-a-half years.
In a anti-rape bill, a sustenance to control DNA tests on both a purported plant and perpetrator has been combined for a initial time.
Rape of minors, as good as a mentally and physically ill, would turn punishable by death.
PTI wants despotic punishment for killers
“Laws are ostensible to beam improved behaviour, not concede mortal poise to continue with impunity,” former senator Sughra Imam, who primarily tabled a bill, told media.
Some 500 women are killed any year in Pakistan during a hands of family members over viewed repairs to “honour” that can engage eloping, fraternising with group or any other infringement opposite regressive values that oversee women’s modesty.
In a infancy of cases, a plant is a lady and a torpedo is a relations who shun punishment by seeking redemption for a crime from family members.
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