Senate body raises objection on Zainab Alert Bill.

ISLAMABAD -- Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday raised objection on the Zainab Alert Bill.

The Senate Functional Committee for Human Rights met under Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar.

While chairing the meeting on Wednesday at parliament house, Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar said that the committee had highlighted legal shortcomings in the proposed bill, adding that it is must that mistakes found in the bill be removed.

He said that this law must be implemented as soon as possible because the ratio of child abuse is increasing day by day, child kidnapping for ransom for property and smuggling to foreign countries is not included in the bill, kidnapping for ransom and child abuse are two different crimes ,therefore there punishment must be different.

The committee has said that...

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