LAHORE: Punjab Ombudsman retired Maj. Azam Suleman Khan has constituted an experts’ working group to raise public awareness against online child sex abuse in the province.
Chief Provincial Commissioner for Children Tabana Sajjad Naseer would lead the 16-member working group with National Commission on Children (Wafaqi Mohtasib) Chairperson Shaheen Attiq-ur-Rehman, Grievance Commissioner for Children (Wafaqi Mohtasib) Advisor Syeda Viquar-un-Nisa Hashmi, MPAs Shamsa Ali and Zainab Lodhi, Pehchaan President Dr Naeem Zafar as its members.
Similarly, special secretaries of home, school education and higher education departments, provincial secretary information and culture, DGs of Auqaf, social welfare and child protection & welfare bureau departments, head of HRCP, additional IG (Operations) Punjab and FIA’s director cybercrime Punjab would be the ex-officio members.
This working group would act as a think tank, in collaboration with line departments, to protect children from cyber-harassment to develop Punjab as a child-friendly province.
An important meeting of this working group would be held in the office of the Punjab ombudsman on March 10.
