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NA passes contentious resolution calling for public hanging of child sexual abusers
[DAWN] A resolution calling for the public hanging of offenders convicted for sexually abusing and murdering children was passed in the National Assembly on Friday with a majority of votes.The session was presided over by Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri. The hand-written resolution, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, referred to the "brutal killing of 8-year-old Iwaz Noor in Nowshera". "Strongly condemning" the death, the signatories wrote: "This house [...] demands that to stop these shameful and brutal killings of children and give a strong deterrent effect, the killers and rapists should not only be given death penalty  by hanging but they should be hanged publicly."Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan presented the resolution in the parliament, which was passed by all politicians, apart from PPP's. Raja Pervez Ashraf, PPP leader and former prime minister, said: "Ramping up the severity of punishments does not result in a reduction in crime." "We cannot put public hanging into practice as it violates the laws of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... ," he added, reminding members of the parliament that Pakistain is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Posted by: Fred 2020-02-08 |
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