State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan has expressed resentment over Minister for Science Fawad Chaudhry’s statement on the issue of public hanging of rapists after the National Assembly demanded exemplary punishment for the abusers in a resolution on Friday.
Khan reacted strongly to Fawad Chaudhry’s tweet who had criticised the approval of controversial resolution.
The resolution, which was tabled in the Lower House by parliamentary affairs minister stated: “This house strongly condemns the brutal killing of 8-year-old Iwaz Noor in Noshera and demands that to stop these shameful and brutal killings of children and give a strong deterrence effect, the killers and rapists should not only be given death penalty by hanging but they should be hanged publically.”
Soon after it’s passage, Fawad Chaudhry tweeted: “This is just another grave act in line with brutal civilisation practices. Societies act in a balanced way. Barbarism is not the answer to crimes […] this is another expression of extremism.”
Later, responding to the science minister’s tweet, Ali Mohammad Khan defended the resolution and said, “those calling Islamic punishments as barbaric are themselves cruel.”
The resolution passed in NA today on public hangings was across party lines and not a govt-sponsored resolution but an individual act. Many of us oppose it – our MOHR strongly opposes this. Unfortunately I was in a mtg and wasn’t able to go to NA.
— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) February 7, 2020
