Sindh Assembly calls for mandatory DNA tests in rape cases

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anjum
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The Sindh Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution which calls for making DNA tests mandatory in rape cases. The resolution was tabled by PPP MPA Sharmila Farooqi.

Per the resolution, DNA tests would be mandatory in all rape cases, the costs of which will be supported by the Sindh government.

The resolution comes in the wake of a controversial recommendation made by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) last month which had attracted a great deal of criticism from women rights organisations.

The CII had recommended that DNA should not be included as primary evidence with regard to rape cases.

They held the view that Islam had set procedures to determine cases of rape and said Islamic procedure should be adopted during investigation.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) had called the CII declaration “regressive, unfortunate and unkind to rape victims”.

The HRCP also called on the new government for an urgent reconstitution of the CII.

A number a civil society groups have called for the CII to be abolished in the ‘larger interest of a progressive and tolerant society’.

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22 COMMENTS

  1. Yes A good move.. Laws should also be made against extra maritial sex, B’coz the foetus is responsible for the mess, why the should be aborted instead of the Morons who did Sex.!!

  8. Sindh Assembly, and especially MPA Sharmila Farooqi, who tabled the resolution, deserve to be congratulated on an excellent move.

    Karachi

  9. Sindh Assembly, and especially MPA Sharmila Farooqi, who tabled the resolution, deserve to be congratulated on an excellent move.

    Karachi

  12. Yes A good move.. Laws should also be made against extra maritial sex, B'coz the foetus is responsible for the mess, why the should be aborted instead of the Morons who did Sex.!!

  18. OFCOURSE!!! Sharmila did one thing good in her life…Waqai opposition makes a difference!!

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