{"id":64547,"date":"2025-02-04T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=64547"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:02:09","slug":"senate-committee-passes-anti-human-smuggling-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/senate-committee-passes-anti-human-smuggling-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee passes anti-human smuggling bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Senate<\/span>‘s<\/span>\u00a0standing committee\u00a0<\/span>on<\/span> the interior has\u00a0<\/span>strongly<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>acted<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>against<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>human smuggling<\/a> syndicate <\/span>by\u00a0<\/span>adopting<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the Prevention of Migrants Smuggling bill<\/a><\/span>, which was submitted unanimously<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>committee held under the convenorship of\u00a0<\/span>Senator Faisal Saleem, the\u00a0<\/span>government-submitted bill for the Prevention of Migrants <\/span>Smuggling<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>was<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>discussed<\/span> and\u00a0<\/span>aimed at overcoming<\/span>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>rising<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>occurrences<\/span>\u00a0of human <\/span>trafficking<\/span>. Senate committee passes anti-human smuggling bill.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interior Secretary Khurram Agha\u00a0<\/span>said<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>bill<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>is<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>important<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>as<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>it\u00a0<\/span>proposes<\/span> steps for conviction and sentences. It will make t<\/span>he\u00a0<\/span>framework\u00a0<\/span>more powerful\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>address<\/span>\u00a0the issue. <\/span><\/p>\n

Senator Shahadat Awan\u00a0<\/span>said<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>that\u00a0<\/span>with\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>increase<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in the\u00a0<\/span>sentence for the offense<\/span>\u00a0from seven years to 10 years,\u00a0<\/span>the accused <\/span>will\u00a0<\/span>not<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>be<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>able<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>get<\/span>\u00a0early bail. <\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>unanimous passage\u00a0<\/span>of the bill\u00a0<\/span>is a\u00a0<\/span>good<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>step<\/span>\u00a0towards curbing human smuggling.\u00a0<\/span>In addition<\/span>, the law ministry official revealed that the sentences have also been increased for those assisting or facilitating beggars, with facilitators and those forcing people into begging facing a 10-year jail term under the law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The Senate‘s\u00a0standing committee\u00a0on the interior has\u00a0strongly\u00a0acted\u00a0against\u00a0the\u00a0human smuggling syndicate by\u00a0adopting\u00a0the Prevention of Migrants Smuggling bill, which was submitted unanimously.\u00a0 In\u00a0the\u00a0committee held under the convenorship of\u00a0Senator Faisal Saleem, the\u00a0government-submitted bill for the Prevention of Migrants Smuggling\u00a0was\u00a0discussed and\u00a0aimed at overcoming\u00a0the\u00a0rising\u00a0occurrences\u00a0of human trafficking. Senate committee passes anti-human smuggling bill. Interior Secretary Khurram Agha\u00a0said\u00a0that\u00a0the\u00a0bill\u00a0is\u00a0important,\u00a0as\u00a0it\u00a0proposes steps for conviction and sentences. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26296,26297,23733],"class_list":["post-64547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-anti-human-smuggling-bill","tag-prevention-of-migrants-smuggling-bill","tag-senate-standing-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64548,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64547\/revisions\/64548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}