One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
violations.
History suggests that members of the government and even the opposition remain occupied in short-sighted politics for political gains as opposed to effectively working towards breaking systematic and structural barriers to the implementation of human rights legislation.
With each incoming government, Pakistain witnesses the passage of several human rights legislations. Several federal legislations on women and kiddies’s rights were enacted under the government led by the former prime minister of Pakistain, Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
These legislations require extensive systematic changes in the criminal justice system (CJS) and massive budgetary allocations to be effectively implemented. These include: the Zainab Alert Response and Recovery Act 2018 (’Zainab Act’), the Legal Aid and Justice Authority Act 2020 (’Legal Aid Act’) and the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Act 2021 (’Anti-Rape Act’).
The Zainab Act is named after a seven-year-old girl who was kidnapped, raped and brutally killed in January 2018 in district Kasur. Zainab’s case led to massive public outcry and protests across Pakistain on the inefficiency of the police and gaps in the protection of missing children in the CJS. The Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Agency (ZARRA), mandated under Section 3 of the Zainab Act, was launched by the Ministry of Human Rights on October 15, 2020.