Advisor to Prime Minister on Human Rights Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar said on Wednesday the government is taking numerous steps to curb human rights violation especially against the women and children. Talking to APP he said that Ministry of Human Rights is committed to the protection, promotion and practising of human rights to foster peace and democracy in the country.
To a question, he said as many as 2,587 rape and 6,242 murder cases were reported from Punjab in 2010 thus placing the province at the top of Human Rights (HR) violation list of the provinces. He said cases of HR violation reported from Punjab were indiscriminately more than the figure reported from other provinces that shows lack of commitment of the provincial government in curbing the HR violations.
He said the ministry had done lot of work on legislation to protect women rights. He added that Pakistan is a signatory to different international instruments like Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Convention Against Torture (CAT), Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia.