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Senate panel refers issue of public hanging of child rapists to CII
[DAWN] After having failed to reach a consensus, the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice referred on Thursday a proposed amendment to the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) to provide for public hanging of criminals abducting children for murder to the Council of Islamic Ideology for its view.The committee, headed by Senator Javed Abbasi of the ruling PML-N, also decided to hear representatives of provincial jail administrations at the next meeting before reaching a decision. Former interior minister Senator Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. of the PPP had proposed the amendment to Section 364-A of the PPC, saying that the small amendment would send a strong message and help prevent to a large extent Zainab-like incidents in the country. He also said that this was the pressing demand of the people of Pakistain. The idea was opposed by some members of the committee who said the amendment would not be appropriate as objections were already being raised over the death penalty  in Pakistain.Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani had referred the proposed bill to the house committee on law and directed the committees on interior and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. to give their input on the matter. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-27 |
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