After a glitch: Fund to help women inmates

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Human Rights Barrister Zaffarullah has said that the women in distress and detention fund would be functional soon to help out imprisoned women. The fund, currently having an amount of around Rs46.6 million, was established in 1996 but remained dysfunctional, because of the changing status of the Human Rights Wing, which was first made a ministry from a division and then a wing. The required legislation would be made and the fund would be soon functional once the HR wing becomes a ministry again. Replying to a query regarding the functioning of National Commission on Human Rights, he said the building for the Commission’s office on Margalla Road was being renovated.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th,  2015.