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Punjab forms committee to probe PTI allegations of women prisoners’ mistreatment

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  • CM Mohsin Naqvi forms two-member committee.
  • Body comprises of DC Lahore and SSP Investigation.
  •  Officers will visit Kot Lakhpat jail today.

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi Monday formed a two-member committee to investigate allegations levelled by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of mistreatment of its female supporters in prisons who were arrested after the May 9 vandalism.

PTI Chairman Imran Khan had claimed that the party supporters were being “molested and harassed” and urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to intervene ad take notice of the matter.

Thousands of PTI workers who have been arrested in connection with the May 9 violence also include women, while CM Naqvi had initially claimed that women have been dealt with in line with the law he has now formed a committee to probe the issue.

According to details available with Geo News, the two-member committee — comprising Deputy Commissioner (DC) Lahore Rafia Haider and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Investigation Anoosh Masood — will visit the Kot Lakhpat jail and will speak to the prisoners.

Earlier, CM Naqvi had said the PTI was resorting to propaganda regarding women being mistreated in prisons.

He had revealed that 32 women were arrested and only 11 of them are still in jail now. The chief minister added that it is his government’s duty to ensure that “mothers and sisters remain safe”.

Moreover, speaking to Geo News SSP Masood rejected all claims regarding the “inappropriate treatment” of female prisoners.

She reiterated that a team comprising of female police officers goes for the arrests of women suspects/accused who are then kept under custody in a women’s police station where all the staff members are females.

The SSP further added that no male staff member is allowed to go there where women prisoners are kept.

A day earlier, PTI chief Khan shared a montage on his Twitter handle showing how female workers were treated during the protests held across the country on May 9 after his arrest from the premises of the Islamabad High Court.

“Never have women been humiliated for using their constitutional right to protest peacefully in any democracy let alone in one that is Muslim,” the former prime minister wrote.

He claimed that this was a planned campaign to depoliticise women in the country. 

“The clampdown and terror campaign against women is being done so that their men would discourage their political participation.

“And now there are increasing reports coming that some of the women are being molested and harassed in jail,” he wrote.

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On Quds Day, PM Shehbaz restates Pakistan’s solidarity for the Palestinian people.

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In his speech on Juma tul Wida and the International Day of Al-Quds, he vehemently condemned the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.

According to him, thirty-two thousand Palestinians—including seventeen thousand children—have died in Gaza since October of last year, and seventy thousand more have been injured. Access to humanitarian supplies has been purposefully restricted, and hospitals, refugee camps, and children’s schools have all been targeted.
He lamented that the unprovoked bombing of defenseless civilians in Gaza persisted in spite of the UN security council’s decision calling for a ceasefire.

According to the prime minister, Pakistan will stand by its armless Palestinian brothers and sisters diplomatically and morally until they are freed from Israeli occupation and an independent state is established in accordance with pre-1967 borders.

On the occasion of Juma tul Wida, the Prime Minister made a plea to Muslims worldwide, including those in Pakistan, asking them to remember their brothers and sisters in Palestine and Kashmir and to pray to God Almighty for the ability to overcome their challenges.

On the eve of Juma tul Wida, he also urged the country to pray for Pakistan’s peace, security, progress, and prosperity.

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The Punjab Assembly moved to make the manufacture of kites and strings a non-bailable offence.

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Hina Parvez Butt, MPA for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), proposed the resolution. Concerns on the rising number of stray kite string events in the province were voiced in the resolution.

The resolution stated that while stray strings have taken many lives in Punjab, police are unable to contain the growing issue.

In her motion, the PML-N MPA urged the Punjab Assembly House to declare that offences involving kites and strings are not subject to bail, and they also urged judges to deny bail to those accused of the aforementioned crimes.

It is important to note that after a young person in Faisalabad died, Punjab police launched an operation to stop kite flying and sales in the region.

Public announcements cautioned the public against kite flying, while the police filed cases and detained makers of metal and kite strings.

On the orders of Chief Medical Officer Maryam Nawaz, police had on March 25 registered 245 cases and detained 242 kite flyers around the province.

In addition, the Karachi commissioner banned the selling of kites and their flying within the city after multiple people were gravely hurt by loose kite strings.

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Nafisa Shah and Shazia Marri Give Up Their Reserved Assembly Seats

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Following their election to the assembly in the general elections, Ms. Shazia Marri and Nafisa Shah submitted their resignations from their reserved seats in the National Assembly representing the province of Sindh.

Shazia Marri became victorious in NA-209 Sanghar, beating Grand Democratic Alliance candidate Muhammad Khan Junejo, while Syeda Nafisa Shah emerged victorious in NA-202 Khairpur, defeating former Sindh Chief Minister Syed Ghaus Ali Shah.

The Election Commission has announced that Sharmila Sahiba Faruqui Hashaam and Muddassir Sehar Kamran, both members of the People’s Party, have been proclaimed elected to the National Assembly on the reserved seats occupied by Shazia Marri and Syeda Nafisa Shah.

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