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Bill to criminalise enforced disappearances gathering dust in Pakistan, says PPP leader
Islamabad: Secretary General Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Farhatullah Babar recently slammed Pakistan PM Imran Khan-led government and said it does not seem serious in enacting its own bill to criminalise enforced disappearances.
“From some glaring mistakes in the bill to the fact that it is lying in the National Assembly Committee on Interior unattended for the past over eight weeks, it appears that there is no interest in it,” he was quoted as saying by The News International while speaking at a webinar organized by the Defence of Human Rights and Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) on Tuesday.
Babar said hopes were raised when the bill criminalising "enforced disappearances" was tabled in the parliament for the first time in the country.
“However, it appears that some powerful quarters are still opposed to its legislation,” he said.
The PPPP leader said even if the bill was enacted in its present form, it will still fall far too short of achieving the objectives that are to be needed.
“The bill brought before the National Assembly does not provide for any of these essential prerequisites,” he said.
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