Pakistan Parliament’s joint sitting on Friday passed two important bills, one seeking to curb murders in the name of honour and the other to punish rapists by use of modern technology of DNA testing in probes involving rape cases.
Both the bills, initially moved by former Senator Sughra Imam, were passed unanimously by the Senate sometime back and subsequently moved in the Joint Sitting of the Parliament by Senator Farhatullah Babar on the expiry of Imams term in the Senate.
“Under the existing laws a close relative murdered a woman in the name of honour and was promptly pardoned by another close family member. Thus the murderer would walk away literally without any punishment. It cannot be the spirit of religion to condone pre-meditated murder with ulterior murders,” Senator Babar said.
He said that the anti-honour killing Bill was passed by the Senate Committee in 2014 when it was headed by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Senator.
Subsequently it was passed by the 104 member Senate by consensus including the religious parties.
He said that under the anti terror laws murder was not compoundable and Qisas and Diyat did not apply.
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