Islamabad; 29th July, 2026: Meeting of the Standing Committee on Human Rights was held at 11:00 a.m. in Committee Room No. 7, Parliament House, Islamabad. Ms. Asiya Naz Tanoli, MNA presided over the meeting.

 

The Committee highly appreciated the role of M/o Human Rights for successfully conducting the 9th OIC Ministerial Conference on Women in Islamabad which would help to enhance the role of Women in socioeconomic empowerment, digital inclusion and political participation. 

 

The Committee expressed concern over the different ages determined for marriage by the Federal & Provincial Governments and directed M/o Human Rights may adopt stringent measures to make the marriage age identical in all over the country by taking all provinces into confidence.    

 

The Committee expressed concern over the poor performance of Ministries/Departments responsible to curb the social evils in the country over the period of time due to improper liaison between Ministries/Departments responsible for the purpose. The Committee deemed that policies were confined to papers only as their implementation seemed to be zero at gross root level. The Committee directed that M/o Human Rights may develop proper liaison between all Ministries/Departments to curb the social evils i.e. Rape, Harassment, Child Abuse, Drugs & Begging etc. The Committee also directed that M/o Human Rights may launch a strong Media Campaign about the services provided by them to create awareness among the general public to enhance the performance of their departments.     

 

Earlier, the Committee briefly apprised about the performance of National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) and Child Protection Institute (CPI) and problems faced by them in this regard. They sought support of the Committee for enhancement of Budget and recruitment on vacant posts so that they could deliver properly. 

 

The meeting was attended by the MNA’s, Mr. Danyal Chaudhary, Mr. Shamsher Ali Mazari, Ms. Zeb Jaffar, Ms. Tamkeen Akhtar Niazi, Dr. Nelson Azeem, Ms. Sehar Kamran, Ms. Shahida Rehmani, Mr. Naveed Aamir & Ms. Sabheen Ghoury MNA (joined through Zoom Link) Syeda Nosheen Iftikhar, MNA and Senior officers from Ministries of Human Rights/Departments.