In present world there are many communities that are passing their lives under inhuman laws in third world countries as well as in developing countries. Pakistan is also a country which in passing through the stages of development. The article regards an inhuman law which is applicable to the tribal people of FATA.
FATA stands for federally administrative tribal areas. On the boarder of Afghanistan and Pakistan there living Pukhtoon tribes in hilly areas which have lack of social development. There population is about fifty lakes now a day. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, article 247, Pakistani law is not applicable to the tribal built and FCR should be applicable to these areas.
As we discussed that FCR stands for frontier crimes regulation. Originally it is a British law which had applied to control the tribal people during colonial government. It has 64 articles and most of them are against basic human rights while government of Pakistan says that these are according to the cultural set up of tribal people
Some main points of FCR are as bellow that is against basic human rights.
According to the article 40 of FCR if any tribal commits any crime his whole tribe will be responsible for his wrong act and government can arrest any person of his tribe. So it is clear that it is against human rights because every person is responsible for his/her wrong act another concept is that in tribal culture if a person commit crime only his family supports him rather than his whole tribe so as Anthropological point of view FCR should be amend that tribal responsibility should be changed to family responsibility and government can arrest his other family members and not his other tribal.
Another point is that if any murder case happened near one’s home that person will be responsible for murder. It is clear that each government is responsible for the safety of all citizens and no citizen is responsible for the safety of other citizens so why should a government arrest a person for a not committed crime.
According to FCR tribal people have no right of appeal to any court in the country. They can solve their disputes under the authority of political administration of Pakistani government. So it is also against human rights because why a person can not go to court for his/her rights.
Another and last reason for the wrongness of FCR is that FATA is under the control of Pakistani government than why there is different law for people of one country.
We can suggest that Pakistani government should amend FCR in the context of present culture of tribal people and universal human rights.
Aftab Ahmad Mallagori
Khyber Agency
By: aftab ahmad khan mallagori
FCR: An Inhuman Law
Human Organ Trade Banned – China
In May 2, 2007, China officially banned the trade in human organs, China’s state media reported. The Asian giant is often accused of heavily involving in the harvesting human organs of executed prisoners for organ transplant surgeries.
Is harvesting human organs for transplant in this way ethical? After all, lives are being saved from such transplant surgeries. Well, the debate on this subject matter by various interest and human right groups is ongoing and yet to be settled.
The new law and regulations issued by the State Council, China’s powerful cabinet prohibit all organizations and individuals from trading in human organs in any form, the official state media, Xinhua news agency reported.
Any doctor or surgeon found to be involved in illegal trading of human organs for transplant surgeries will have his/her medical license revoked. Clinics and hospitals will be suspended from doing transplant operations for at least three years if convicted of defying the law on organ transplant trade.
Fines have been set at about ten times the value of the outlawed trading of human organs and government officials convicted for trading in human organs will be sacked immediately.
International human right groups have long accused China country of harvesting human organs from executed prisoners for organ transplant surgeries without their consent or that of their family. China’s hospitals too have also been similarly accused of stealing human organs from road accident victims and other dead patients without telling family members.
The Chinese government has always denied any of these accusations, saying that most organs are voluntarily donated whom the donors have given their consent. Foreign patients facing compatible shortage of human organs in their home countries have flocked to China where human organs are plentiful and the transplant surgeries are relatively less expensive.
China has the world’s second largest number of human organ transplant performed after the United States of America with about 5,000 transplant operations performed every year. However, if you look at the population of China, the world’s largest population, the number of transplant operations is still relatively small.The new law does not apply to transplants of human tissue such as cells, corneas and bone marrow.
Do you think that China’s ban on the human organ’s trade is a move in the right dierection? Are there better ways to harvest human organs ethically? After all, the donors are already dead and their organs will be wasted when buried or cremated along with them. Why not let the dead bring life to the living?
By: Chris Chew
China Banned Human Organ Trade
In May 2, 2007, China officially banned the trade in human organs, China’s state media reported. The Asian giant is often accused of heavily involving in the harvesting the organs of executed prisoners for transplant surgeries.
Is harvesting human organs for transplant in this way ethical? After all, lives are being saved from such transplant surgeries. Well, the debate on this subject matter by various interest and human right groups is ongoing and yet to be settled.
The new law and regulations issued by the State Council, China’s powerful cabinet prohibit all organizations and individuals from trading in human organs in any form, the official state media, Xinhua news agency reported.
Any doctor or surgeon found to be involved in illegal trading of human organs for transplant surgeries will have his/her medical license revoked. Clinics and hospitals will be suspended from doing transplant operations for at least three years if convicted of defying the law on organ transplant trade.
Fines have been set at about ten times the value of the outlawed trading of human organs and government officials convicted for trading in human organs will be sacked immediately.
International human right groups have long accused China country of harvesting organs from executed prisoners for transplant surgeries without their consent or that of their family. China’s hospitals too have also been similarly accused of stealing human organs from road accident victims and other dead patients without telling family members.
The Chinese government has always denied any of these accusations, saying that most organs are voluntarily donated whom the donors have given their consent. Foreign patients facing compatible shortage of human organs in their home countries have flocked to China where human organs are plentiful and the transplant surgeries are relatively less expensive.
China has the world’s second largest number of human organ transplant performed after the United States of America with about 5,000 transplant operations performed every year. However, if you look at the population of China, the world’s largest population, the number of transplant operations is still relatively small.The new law does not apply to transplants of human tissue such as cells, corneas and bone marrow.
Do you think that China’s ban on the human organ’s trade is a move in the right dierection? Are there better ways to harvest human organs ethically? After all, the donors are already dead and their organs will be wasted when buried or cremated along with them. Why not let the dead bring life to the living?
By: Chris Chew