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President approves Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020

ISLAMABAD: President Dr. Arif Alvi has approved the Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 here today.

Under the Ordinance, special courts will be set up all over Pakistan and rape cases will be disposed off within four months. Anti-Rape Crisis Cells will be established and authorized to conduct medico-legal examination within six hours of the incident.

With the support of NADRA a record will be prepared at national level in order to register the perpetrators. Furthermore, revealing of the identity of rape victims will be a punishable offense.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.