Sunday, August 21, 2011

Eve teasers to get 3-year jail or rupees half million fine: Iftikhar Says Bacha Khan raised voice for woman rights in 1930

THE FRONTIER POST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain Saturday assured strict action against the people involved in women harassment under relevant section of the law.Women harassment is an offence under section 509 of Pakistan Penal Code and the violators could be fined to the tune of half a million rupees or three years imprisonment, said the Information Minister while talking to a delegation of “Asha”, an organization working for the rights of women. Councilor Khurshid Bano led the delegation.The Minister maintained harassment of the women at the work places, public spots and any other place has been declared as a legal offence and the law came in to action whenever such matter was reported to police.He said not only the women but every person of the society has to be protected against harassment and added that the problem of the women is very delicate and sensitive and has to be dealt with extreme caution and care.The Info Minister said that only illiterate and narrow-minded people in the society were against educating women. .He said that women are part of our society and we do not consider them as an unequal part of humanity but rather our religion Islam accords highest respect and regard to mother, daughter, sister and wife, which has no precedence in other religion of the world.The ANP has a very consistent stance on the rights of the women and recalled the Fakhr-e-Afghan Bacha Khan had raised voice for the rights of women at a time when nobody could think of it.There was a separate space in the Pakhtun magazine in 1930 about the rights of women wherein the women used to express their point of view very explicitly.He further recalled that Fakhar­e-Afghan Bacha Khan gave equal status to women in education, politics, inherited property and other social sectors.Mian Iftikhar further assured that campaign would be launched through media about the rights of women and their respective law so that its implementation was made effective.

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