{"id":1028405,"date":"2021-11-18T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028405"},"modified":"2021-11-18T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:13:37","slug":"pakistan-passes-law-to-chemically-castrate-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pakistan-passes-law-to-chemically-castrate-rapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Passes Law to Chemically Castrate Rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpakistan-passes-law-to-chemically-castrate-rapists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028405&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_19313485753505-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Pakistan\u2019s parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1658742\">passed<\/a> a bill on Wednesday introducing chemical castration as a possible punishment for serial rapists in the country,&nbsp;<em>Dawn<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The new law went into immediate effect on November 17 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/new-pakistan-law-allows-chemical-castration-serial-rapists-2021-11-18\/\">included<\/a> a provision for \u201cfaster trials of suspected sexual offenders,\u201d according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the law, \u201cchemical castration is a process duly notified by rules framed by the prime minister, whereby a person is rendered incapable of performing sexual intercourse for any period of his life, as may be determined by the court through administration of drugs which shall be conducted through a notified medical board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has publicly supported the chemical castration bill since last year in response to increased incidents of rape across Pakistan. While campaigning for the bill, Khan cited the specific example of a woman who was dragged out of her car while driving along a major Pakistan highway and raped by two men at gunpoint in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a journalist about the crime one week after it occurred, Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-pakistan-rape-punishment\/pakistani-prime-minister-suggests-chemical-castration-for-rapists-idUSKBN26533N\">said<\/a>&nbsp;he \u201cbelieved the culprits should be hanged publicly,\u201d Reuters reported at the time. The prime minister added that he had previously expressed this sentiment to fellow Pakistani government officials, who had informed him that \u201csuch an act could endanger a preferential trade status given to Pakistan by the European Union (EU).\u201d Khan said this knowledge prompted him to consider chemical castration as a punishment for convicted rapists instead.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe way there is first degree, second degree, third-degree murder, this [rape] should be graded in the same way, and when there is first degree [rape], castrate them,\u201d he said. \u201cOperate on them and make them unable to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Pakistan, at least 11 rape cases are reported daily with over 22,000 rape cases reported to police across the country in the last six years,\u201d Asian News International (ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/world\/asia\/sexual-assault-cases-continue-to-rise-in-pakistan-as-another-motorway-rape-case-emerges20211018233929\/\">reported<\/a> on October 18, citing official Pakistani government data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 77 accused of the 22,000 cases were found to be convicted and the conviction rate is sadly around 0.3 percent,\u201d the Indian news agency&nbsp;observed.<\/p>\n<p>ANI cited the statistics while reporting on another rape of a woman on a highway in Pakistan on October 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn 18-year-old woman was enticed with a job offer and then gang-raped on M-4 motorway in Gorja, Pakistan\u2019s Punjab province,\u201d ANI relayed, citing local media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe perpetrators of the crime invited the woman with evil intentions for a job in the city and when she arrived, the suspects gang-raped her in the car, dashed her on Faisalabad Interchange, and fled the scene,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s the Nation.com <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.com.pk\/15-Oct-2021\/another-motorway-rape-case-as-sexual-assault-continues-to-jolt-women\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s parliament passed a bill on Wednesday introducing chemical castration as a possible punishment for serial rapists in the country,\u00a0Dawn reported. 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