ISLAMABAD: The Senate of Pakistan
licenses a law that bans, for the first time, child sexual abuse, child
pornography and trafficking.
The Criminal Law
(Amendment) Bill 2015 that will go into force after being approved by President
Mamnoon Hussain also increases the age of criminal responsibility from seven to
10 years of age.
Under the brush up law,
sexual abuse will now be indictable with up to seven years in prison.
Previously, only rape was forbade. Similarly, child pornography, which was
previously not mentioned in the law, will be indictable with seven years in
prison and a fine of Rs700,000.
The country was disturbed
by a major scandal last August when it was exposed that hundreds of
pornographic videos of children from Hussain Khanwala village in the Punjab
province had been made and were being dispersed.
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