Pakistani human rights activists hold placards during a protest on the International Women's Day in Karachi on March 8, 2011. Almost a thousand women were raped in Pakistan during 2010 while more than 2,000 were abducted and almost 1,500 murdered, according to the Aurat Foundation. - AFP

ISLAMABAD: Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Zarqa Bibi has demanded of the federal government to ban showing faces of female victims on the electronic and print media.

Talking to VOA, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) MPA said, "The practice of showing the faces of victimised girls and women on media is not doing them any favours. The media should instead bring the culprits to the public eye so that they could be punished for the heinous crimes."

Bibi lauded the media for  frequently raising its voice for safeguarding the rights of the women and deplored the fact that the resolutions passed to protect women's rights were not being implemented by the government.

It must be noted that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly had recently passed a resolution demanding an end to the practice of showing the faces of female victims by the media.