Pakistan has finally scrapped a proposed law punishing chemical rapists. In fact, the government of Imran Khan took the uterus. Maleka Bukhari, the country's legal secretary, confirmed the matter at a press conference. "We have amended the criminal law," he said. It has been decided to remove the impotent provision of rape with chemicals. But, why this sudden uterus?

Maleka Bukhari said: "This proposal has been amended following the opinion of the State Islamic Ideology Council (IIC) at the very last moment of passing the law. The council said the punishment for disabling the genitals was un-Islamic. As a result, the proposal, which was specified in the vote, was dropped from the draft.

It is to be mentioned that last Wednesday, Imran Khan's government brought a proposal in the parliament for the punishment of rape. Where mentioned, rapists will be disqualified from sexual intercourse through chemical methods as punishment. As soon as this news came out, there was a storm of criticism in various quarters. Various human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have expressed concern.

The incidence of sexual offenses against women and children is on the rise in Pakistan. According to the non-governmental organization War Against Rape, the court has convicted the perpetrators in only three percent of the cases. Protests erupted across the country in 2020 after a mother was gang-raped in front of her son on a highway. The court hanged two people involved in the incident. Protests also erupted in Pakistan recently over the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, a resident of Kasur. At that time, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that rapists should be punished in such a way that they could be sexually assaulted or disabled. As the incidence of rape of women and children continues to rise, the Imran government has decided to enact stricter laws. However, under pressure from the international community, Imran retreated. The bill was also passed in a joint sitting of the Pakistani parliament. But, suddenly the decision changed.

Poland, South Korea, the Czech Republic and some states in the United States have provisions to chemically degrade rapists. However, human rights activists have described it as inhumane. Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami senator Mustaq Ahmed called the bill anti-Islamic and anti-Sharia. According to him, the rapist has been publicly hanged in Sharia. There is no mention of genital mutilation.