PAKISTAN: Sindh Province Assembly censures Council of Islamic Ideology and demand its closure on its latest controversial ANTI WOMEN Recommendations brecorder/general-news/172/1168327/ The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed a resolution unanimously censuring the Council for Islamic Ideology for its recent controversial recommendations and calling for its closure. A resolution, which was moved by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional lady lawmaker, Mehtab Akbar Rashdi, said that the recent CII recommendations were damaging to social set-up. She termed the recommendations as regressive and anti-women. The resolution pointed at three recent recommendations of the council, which generated controversies, as the civil society censured the council for them. This house shows its strong reservations on the recent recommendations of Council of Islamic Ideology, which show complete indifference and insensitivity to the issue pertaining to women. Like, no minimal age for marriage, recommendation against DNA test as evidence in rape cases, no need of taking the permission of wife for second marriage...,it said. Lawmakers from either side of the house supported the resolution, as the mover called for closing the CII for creating confusion in the society. The parliamentary leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, Irfanullah Khan Marwat, said that the federal government may lack courage to challenge the councils recommendations but the Sindh Assembly will continue to oppose these. MQMs Syed Sardar Ahmed said the Council came into existence in line with the Constitutions Article 22 (A) which has a specific role to function. He said the council can only set forth its recommendations and cannot enforce any law. He said the government should appoint competent people to run the council undisputedly and it should not also accept all of its recommendations. Sindh Senior Education Minister, Nisar Khuhro, Sindh Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Dr Sikandar Mandhro, and opposition leader Faisal Sabzwari also expressed their views and ASKED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO STEP UP TO CALL THE RECOMMENDATION NULL AND VOID, IN TERMS OF RELIGION.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:35:07 +0000
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