Islamabad:
On Friday, the Senate adopted the penalty (amendment), 2025, which removed the death penalty for public assaults of women, including disrobing, and to have a capacker and replace it with a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
The house, which met with Vice President Syedal Khan Nasir in the chairman, also adopted two other bills that sought changes to the extradition law, 1972, and Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951.
All three bills were filed by the prime minister of the inner Talal Chaudhry.
The Bill on Criminal Law (amendments), 2025, proposes changes in sections 354-A and 402-C in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). However, the opposition enlisters Ali Zafar and Samina Mumtaz Zehri opposed the bill.
In response, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar Parliament said the severity of the penalty not necessarily deterred crime. “Giving the death penalty does not reduce crimes,” he said. “We have a very high crime rate, so we have to solve our system,” he added.
He referred to an incident under the regime of the former military ruler Gen Ziaul Haq, where the elders in the village had torn the clothes of a woman. “This law was then passed by the martial arts administrator,” he remembered, adding that life -long prison remained a very severe punishment.
“I request that we end the terrible gift from the martial arts time,” the law minister told Parliament. He suggested that, apart from the four penalties of death given in Sharia according to the Hudood Love, there should be no other death penalty.
With regard to the Bill on Delivery (amendment), 2025, Tarar said the extradition law was bilateral. In Pakistan, the delivery process involves five phases beginning with cabinet approval. “And after a study, the federal government finally approves the extradition,” he said.
He explained that the bill abolished the requirement of approval of the cabinet at the initial step. “The cases are dealt with in accordance with the extradition law, 1972, and must be forwarded to the federal cabinet twice, which takes significant time due to the busy schedule of cabinet business,” he noted.
The ticket’s declaration of the target of Pakistani Citizenship (amendment) -The proposal emphasized that a large number of overseas Pakistanis were forced to waive their citizenship to acquire the nationality of a foreign country for residence or legal residence.
But when such countries later entered into double nationality schemes with Pakistan, there was no provision in the Citizenship Act so that they could resume Pakistani citizenship. The change now provides legal coverage to allow the diaspora to regain their citizenship.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister for Federal Education and Professional Education introduced Wajiha Qamar Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (amendment), 2025, as reported by the relevant standing committee.
The registration of the bill said the law had been amended to provide a comprehensive framework for the board of directors to organize, regulate, implement and oversee intermediate and secondary education in accordance with international best practices.
The proposed changes are intended to facilitate fast and flexible decision -making, while the board makes it possible to establish international collaborations. The composition of the board has also been revised to introduce a more inclusive structure.
Tarar said Tarar talked about the bill to reduce the workload of the federal government with several responsibilities delegated from the federal cabinet. He added that provincial representation had also been secured by the restructured board.
During the case, Senator Humayun Mohmand informed Huset that private recruitment agencies had sent Pakistani girls to Serbia, where they were allegedly forced into prostitution. He demanded that the case be referred to the relevant committee.
Prime Minister of Law Attorney Aqeel Malik replied by stating that the Pakistani mission had no role in sending girls to Serbia. He revealed that 38 individuals from Pakistan had gone there for jobs in fruit and vegetable holdings. The case was later referred to the relevant committee of the chairman.
Separately drawn Senator Abdul Shakoor House’s attention to “looting of private medical colleges”.
Barrister Malik also made the National Regulation for Land Trade and Food Safety Authority, 2025. The session was later postponed until Monday.
