PPP submits call attention notice over Kasur scandal

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Sunday submitted a call attention notice in the National Assembly to discuss the heinous and shocking scandal of organised child abuse in Kasur.
The notice, signed by PPP legislators Shazia Atta Marri, Dr Nafisa Shah, Belum Husnain, Shahida Rehmani and Imran Zafar Leghari, and submiited under Rule 88 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in National Assembly, 2007, refers to the organised child abuse in Kasur involving local influential people and the police.
“This is an important matter and needs immediate discussion on the floor of the House,” the notice said.Former president Asif Ali Zardari has called for a report from the Punjab chapter of the party about the incident and has demanded a thorough probe and investigation and punishment to the culprits under the law.
Media reports have said that nearly three hundred young children were sexually abused sometime back but reports have surfaced now. The former president also called upon the party parliamentarians to investigate the reports and raise the issue in Parliament. “The reports are a slap on the face of the government and of society and must not go un-noticed,” he said.