Asad Umer files Zainab Alert Act 2018 with National Assembly
Zainab Alert Act 2018 is an Act against kidnapping, abduction, rape of children"
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Member of National Assembly (MNA) belonging to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has filed Zainab Alert Act 2018 in the House on Wednesday to better the system that tackles with children’s abduction, rape and murder.
Umer proposed the legislation today, months after a seven-year-old minor girl was abducted and raped before her body was found in a heap of trash in Kasur district of Punjab.
Submitted the zainab alert act 2018 in the NA today. The act is designed to improve the systems in place to fight the most heinous of crimes...the abduction, rape and murder of children which has become unfortunately rampant. Protecting our children has to be our highest priority pic.twitter.com/Wkib0u8AWL
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) March 14, 2018
“Zainab Alert Act 2018 is an Act against kidnapping, abduction, rape of children which are increasing day by day in the country,” the draft read.
The draft has put forth two demands namely, establishment of an office to detect, alert and rescue of the missing children and maintain a database in this regard to speed up investigations.
