Staff Reporter
Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has said that extremism and terrorism will not be tolerated at all and these will be uprooted by all means. In Sha Allah, Pakistan has a bright future. Zero tolerance policy is being formulated on violence against women.
He expressed these views, while addressing the 46th Convocation of University of Home Economics and speaking at a ceremony regarding 16-day Awareness Campaign for violence against women organized by UN Women Mumkin Alliance and Chief Minister’s Special Monitoring Unit here at Governor House on Tuesday. Provincial Minister Ashifa Riaz, Provincial Minister for Minority Affairs Dr Ijaz Alam Augustine, Women Protection Authority’s Chairperson Fatima Chaddar, Kiran Sitara, Samiya Yousaf, Hifza Mazhar and others were present in the ceremony.
In his address, Governor Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said that violence on women is a horrendous crime and strict action will be taken against the people involved in violence against women.
He said that forced marriage is also a crime and we have to focus on religious teachings so the women can be given their due right. Though laws on violence against women are existed, there is a dire need to make the women well-aware about these laws so that they can raise their voice instead of facing the violence silently. He said that Islam had given the rights of inheritance and marriage as per their wish to women 1400 years ago.
