Law and order: ‘Govt’s attitude on crimes against women is lamentable’

PTI leader says the government has failed to ensure rule of law.

LAHORE:

“The government must take action against the rising incidents of violence against women,” Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) president Ejaz Chaudhary said on Monday.

He was addressing a press conference. PTI general secretary Yasmin Rashid, information secretary Andleeb Abbas and Insaf Action Forum head Mehnaz Rafi were also present.

Chaudhary said there was no rule of law in the country. He said the government had failed to enforce laws.

Rashid said it was shameful that even though dozens of political parties and civil society activists had protested against the government’s attitude on crimes against women, no action had been taken to protect them.

She said PTI’s INSAF Action Forum had collected statistics of crimes against women.

Rafi said she had lobbied for a bill for protection of women’s rights for 11 years but had been ignored.

She urged civil society activists to join hands with the PTI to protest against the government’s indifference.

Abbas said the highest number of incidents of violence against women during the last to months had been recorded in Faisalabad and Lahore.

“If women are unsafe in urban centres, imagine the plight of women in rural areas,” she said.

She said the government had not called an assembly session to discuss the law and order because its poor performance.

MNA Munazza Hassan, MPAs Nosheen Hamid Meraj, Shanila Rout, Aliya Hamza Malik, Sobia Kamal, Sadia Saif, Seemi Bukhari, Neelam Ashraf, Ayesha Zaheer, Ishtiaq Malik and Naseem Akbar were also at press conference.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 22^nd, 2013.