Women’s protection bill in Pakistan will be enforced at all costs.

Well we can hope at least. Women in Pakistan have been working hard to get this bill passed and signed in Congress, so if the government is actually going to support its implementation, that will be a good step.

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the women’s rights protection bill will be enforced throughout the country at all costs. Talking to media personnel at the PM’s Secretariat after attending the fourth Altaf Gauhar Memorial Lecture on Monday, the prime minister rejected statements by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s NWFP government about resisting enforcement of the bill in the province.
“The bill is aimed at protecting the rights of women and no one can stop its implementation in all the provinces,” he said.
He said no political party or provincial government had the right to do politicise the matter. “No one should make it a political issue,” he said.

Unfortunately they have made it a very political issue and passage has been delayed for months, due to half of Parliment saying they would walk out if the bill was even put on the table.
via Dawn News.
UPDATE: Here is the actual text of the 15 page Women’s Protection Bill via Eteraz.org.

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