Staff Reporter
Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights on Monday passed Zainab Alert Bill after necessary amendments.
The meeting of the committee was chaired by its Chairman Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, here today. The bill was finalised in the last meeting of the rights committee of Pakistan’s Majlis-e-Shora.
The draft will be presented before the Senate on March 2 for the approval. The bill will be enforced countrywide.
According to the recent amendments, the police will be bound to register FIR of the missing child and action would be taken against the officers, denying to lodge the report.
The cases related to child rape cases will be heard by special judges.
