The Punjab government has decided in principle to adopt Zainab Alert Bill to ensure safety and wellbeing of children in the province.
This was announced by Chief Minister Usman Buzdar in a tweet on Saturday, he said that child abuse cases were always traumatic to hear and were the government’s biggest concern. The chief minister said: “This is another leap in our mission of providing our children with safest possible environment.”
“We have principally decided to adopt ZainabAlertBill to ensure safety and wellbeing of children in Punjab” he added..
Earlier, Jan 10, the National Assembly had unanimously passed the Zainab Alert bill introduced by NA Standing Committee on Human Rights, which defines the law for the response and recovery of missing children.
The government and opposition joined hands to unanimously pass Zainab Alert bill which paves the way for penalising culprits in crimes against children from 10-14 years to life imprisonment.
A delegation of Insaf Lawyers Forum led by its President Ch Akbar Gujjar called on Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at CM office today. Vice LDA Chairman Sh Muhammad Imran was also present on this occasion. Usman Buzdar assured the lawyers’ community for solving their problems and said that facilities were being created in the lives of people belonging to all segments of the society.
Usman Buzdar said that he himself was a lawyer and fully understood the problems of the lawyers. Lawyers’ community played an important role for ensuring the justice to the common man. He said that Sehat Insaf Cards will also be distributed among the lawyers and the procedure was being evolved in this regard.
He said that funds will be given for the Lahore Bar Hospital. He said that government reviewing a proposal for setting up hostel for lawyers in Lahore. He said soon a convention of lawyers from all over the province will be held and package for lawyers will be announced in that convention. He said that in a society where there was no justice, there was a law of jungle as societies without justice did not exist for a long time.
PTI’s ticket holders of Punjab for national and provincial assemblies called on Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at 90-Shehra-e-Quaid-e-Azam. Matters regarding strengthening of party, solution of the problems of constituencies and increasing the liaison with the people came under discussion during the meeting. The CM announced the development work in the constituencies of ticket holders and said that the neither ticket holder’s the constituencies nor the voters can ignore. He said that the development works will be carried out in the constituencies of ticket holders on preferential basis besides giving them respect as they are an asset for the party. He said that development works in the constituencies will be made with the consultation of ticket holders.
Usman Buzdar said that he will also meet with ticket holders in the district he will visit besides meeting district president and general secretary. He said that together we will move ahead in the journey of public service. He said that ticket holders were my arms will take them along in the journey of public service.
