ISLAMABAD – The National Assembly has passed the Supreme Court and HighCourt Extension of Jurisdiction to the Federally Administered Tribal AreasBill 2017.
The bill moved by Minister for Law Bashir Virk extends the jurisdiction ofSupreme Court of Pakistan and Peshawar High Court to the federallyadministered tribal areas.
Earlier, the house held discussion on situation arising out of the rape andmurder of seven year old girl Zainab, in Kasur.
Opening the debate, Leader of Opposition Khurshid Shah said that thehorrendous incident has aggrieved the entire country. He regretted that thepolice have so far failed to nab the culprit. He said besides arresting theculprit, the government needs to take steps to avoid recurrence of suchchilling incidents in future.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mohsin Shah Nawaz Ranjah urgedthe political parties to doing politics on the matter and rather sittogether to chalk out a strategy to avert cases of child abuse.
He said the present government has carried out legislation and declaredchild abuse and seduction as a crime. He said there is need to ensurespeedy trials in such incidents.
Shireen Mazari said the murderers and rapists of children should be hangedpublicly.
Earlier, a meeting of the House Business Advisory Committee was held withSpeaker of the National Assembly in the chair which decided that thecurrent session of the National Assembly will continue till 25th of thismonth.