14 February 2004	Saturday	22 Zilhaj 1424

KARACHI, Feb 13: Participants of a big demonstration, organized by the Joint Action Committee for People's Rights, condemned growing incidents of violence against women and children and urged the government to take stern action against the culprits.

The protesters, most of them women, assembled outside the press club here on Friday and condemned indifferent attitude of the administration towards the Mirwala incident where two sisters were stripped of their clothes and dragged along the streets by four men, claiming that the victims' brother had illicit relations with their sister.

Representatives of various NGOs - Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Shirkat Gah, Women Action Forum, Aurat Foundation, Hosela, Young Women's Christian Association, War Against Rape, Actionaid, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Orangi Pilot Project, Church World Service, Urban Resource Centre and city councillors - participated in the demonstration.