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All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA) condemns stoning of pregnant woman

LAHORE: The All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA) has strongly condemned the stoning of pregnant woman, Farzana, outside the Lahore High Court (LHC) on May 27.
In a statement on Saturday, the executive committee of APWA’s Punjab chapter urged the Punjab government to take exemplary steps against the culprits as well as police officers concerned. It said that the terrorist attack on a woman under the nose of the highest forum for dispensation of justice was extremely “gruesome, appalling and deplorable.”
It further said that failure of the police present at the scene showed apathy of the law-enforcing agencies against perpetrators of violence against women.
It blamed gender hostile and unconstitutional statements of bodies like the Council of Islamic Ideology, which directly targeted women’s fundamental rights and caused escalation of terrorism against women.