ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government is contemplating a law for protection of children and safeguarding them against abuse by creating an environment to aid their proper upbringing.
The law proposes setting up courts to solve custody disputes and checking violations of children’s rights.
“The idea to frame such a law and set up institutions to provide protection to children came after a recent incident in Karachi in which three women had abandoned their eight children at the Edhi Foundation,” Law Minister Farooq Naek said here yesterday.
A meeting to discuss framing of the law was called by the law minister in which Minister for Social Welfare Samina Ghurki was specially invited to help devise the Child’s Protection Bill as early as possible.
A sub-committee, comprising secretaries of the two ministries and the relevant provincial governments, has also been formed and tasked to come up with suggestions for setting up institutions to protect children from discrimination and abuse.
The proposals that were discussed during the meeting suggested the setting up of a national commission on child’s right at the federal level and child protection bureaus at the provincial level.–Internews |
