Draft laws to be tabled in GBLA’s next session

Bill to curb sale of substandard food items, domestic violence against women, children to be presented soon.


Shabbir Mir November 06, 2010

GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Law Minister, Wazir Shakeel, has said that legislations to curb the sale of substandard food items and domestic violence against women and children would be presented in the legislative assembly soon.

“I am going to present this bill in the assembly in its next session,” the minister told The Express Tribune on Friday.

He said that work in this connection has been done and that lawmakers will refine it .Shakeel also said that once the bill was passed, those involved in the sale of substandard food items and spurious medicines would be charged and punished accordingly.

Similarly, the minister said that the law would also help eliminate domestic violence as well as the violence taking place in schools against students.

“The concerned government agencies will be able to proceed against those involved in  violence,” he said, adding that legislation will have special emphasis on the sale of iodized salt as vendors will only be allowed to sell iodized salt.

In the absence of such laws in Gilgit-Baltistan, sources said, the sale of substandard food items and violence against women and children were rampant.

In this connection, a NGO recently asked the provincial government to assist the government in formulating laws against violence in schools.

The NGO, Plan Pakistan, had recently announced extending their scope of work to G-B in a bid to assist teachers to impart ‘student violence free’ and ‘student friendly education’ in classrooms.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2010.

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