Pakistan’s Punjab To Declare “Emergency” Due To Rising Rape Cases
Punjab Province Pakistan has decided to declare “emergency” amidst the rapid increase in cases of sexual harassment reported to women and children.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the Minister of Home Affairs Punjab Atta Tarar said that an increase in such incidents was a serious problem for the community and government officials.
Four to five rape cases are reported every day in Punjab because the government considers specific steps to handle cases of sexual harassment, harassment and coercion,” he said as quoted by Geo News.
The minister said that civil society, women’s rights organizations, teachers, and lawyers will be consulted on this matter. In addition, he urged parents to teach their children about the importance of safety.
Tarar stated that the defendant in a number of cases had been detained, the government had launched an anti-rape campaign, and students would be warned about harassment in schools.
The Minister of the Interior stated that now it is time for parents to learn how to protect their children. He stated that the government would increase the number of DNA samples based on the fast lane.
Pakistan has suffered and against the epidemic of gender violence and violence against slaughtering women in all classes in the country.
Pakistan ranks 153 out of 156 countries, right above Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan, according to the global gender ranking of the GAP Index 2021.
An article published in the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS) said Pakistan reported as many as 14,456 women over the past four years, while Punjab reported the highest number in this regard.
In addition, harassment of women at work, domestic violence against women and other discriminatory activities against women is also rampant.
5,048 cases of harassment in the workplace of women and violence against women reported in the country during 2018 were attended by 4,751 cases in 2019; 4,276 cases in 2020 and 2,078 cases in 2021,” said the Ministry of Human Rights Documents.
Iffras said that the overlapping legal system was stabbed with a gap and patriarchy that was very veined in the community to join to ensure that women who survived violence were impossible to get justice according to the opinion of human rights activists, lawyers and survivors.
The whole process from the time of crime was carried out against a woman to register with the police – and then the court procedure – was prepared in such a way that justice remained difficult to understand,” Nayab Gohar Jan, a leading rights activist stated in May.
