Call to legislate on corporal punishment in schools
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE : Child rights activists have called for legislation against corporal punishment in schools in the wake of death of a student, Hunain, at the hands of a teacher at a private school recently. Rights activists, educationists and lawyers met at a hotel to push for an end to corporal punishment in schools. “There is no exclusive legislation to punish corporal punishment other than in Sindh where it has been declared criminal,” pointed out Iftikhar Mubarak of an NGO that took the initiative to bring the Education Department officials and rights activists together to find a solution to the problem. A number of incidents of corporal punishment have come to the fore in recent...