ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Faisal Javed Khan has expressed gratitude to the National Assembly for passing the Zainab Alert bill.
Faisal Javed Khan thanked the National Assembly in a tweet and wrote that thankfully the Zainab Alert bill would now be laid in the Senate.
Thank you National Assembly for passing the much awaited #ZainabAlert bill. It will now be laid in Senate. Then Provincial assemblies to work on the same bill. Much needed – please expedite. It ll pave way for setting up Zainab Alert Response and Recovery Agency. #2020عوام_کا_سال pic.twitter.com/CWA3vesKi7
— Faisal Javed Khan (@FaisalJavedKhan) January 10, 2020
The Zainab Alert bill has been passed for the complaints related to minor children who are reported missing, abducted, and raped. A helpline 1099 will be established for it.
The decision comes on the second death anniversary of seven-year-old Zainab Ansari who was raped and later killed in Kasur. She went missing and her body was found on a pile of garbage. The brutal rape and murder had triggered angry countrywide protests. Zainab’s murderer was hanged in Kot Lakhpat jail the same year.
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