NCSW condemns violence against girls
NCSW Chairperson Ume Laila Azhar, expressed her deep concern over the alarming rise in cases of violence against young girls, particularly in the name of honour. "This brutal incident can never be called a killing in the name of honour," she said. "What type of honour is it to kill a person, take someone's life, and that too of your own daughter, over a petty issue like not deleting TikTok from her mobile?"
Azhar demanded strict implementation of laws to prevent such incidents and called for a wake-up call for parents to thoroughly know the spouses of their daughters before considering them for marriage. She also highlighted the need for collective action to prevent technology-facilitated gender-based violence, which is becoming a threat to the next generation.
She took notice of two recent incidents, one in Rawat, where a young girl was killed by her father, and another in Lyari, Karachi, where a 19-year-old girl was a victim of attempted murdered and is suffering from severe sexual violence issues.
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