Mufti Munib terms WP Bill as un-Islamic

D.G. KHAN—Chairman Central Roet-i-Hilal Committee Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman declaring the Women Protection Bill un-Islamic Monday demanded of Chaudary Shujaat Hussain, President of the ruling Muslim League to resign from National Assembly following his promise.
Meanwhile, the PML President has rejected the allegations leveled by Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman stating them baseless. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the Chairman CRHC said Women Protection Bill, 2006 was contrary to injunctions of Islam and didn’t preserved anything which protect women rights.
The Chairman CRHC said Chaudary Shujaat Hussain promised that Ulema Committee’s proposals would be included in WPB or otherwise would resign from the NA. “Ch. Shujaat failed to fulfill his promise, so he must resign”, said Mufti.
Mufti urged President Pervez Musharraf to review the Bill. He said the rulers must avoid from acts which create disintegration between community people. “The passage of the Bill has removed laws preventing vulgarity”, he said. To a question, the Chairman CRHC said he has no program to take part in election and had no links with any political party.
Meanwhile, Chaudary Shujaat Hussain, responding to statement of the Chairman CRHC said that Women Protection Bill was completely consistent with injunctions of Islam as laid down in Quran and Sunnah. “Mufti’s statement is baseless”, Shujaat said while talking to a private TV channel in Islamabad on Monday.
“No clause of the law is un-Islamic”, he added. He said consultations were made with Ulema before tabling the Bill in National Assembly. “We asked Ulema to identify things repugnant to Islamic injunctions in the WPB, but they didn’t mention”, he said.
Shujaat vowed that any fraction of the Bill found to be inconsistent with teachings of Islam would immediately be amended. “If the Chairman Roet-i-Hilal Committee considers anything in the Bill un-Islamic that should be brought before me; I personally will talk to Ministry of Law”, he concluded.
President of Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Chaudary Shujaat Hussain, responding to statement of Chairman Roet-i-Hilal Committee Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman, has said that Women Protection Bill was completely consistent with injunctions of Islam as laid down in Quran and Sunnah.
“Mufti’s statement is baseless”, Shujaat said while talking to a private TV channel here on Monday. “No clause of the law is un-Islamic”, he added.
He said consultations were made with Ulema before tabling the Bill in National Assembly. “We asked Ulema to identify things repugnant to Islamic injunctions in the WPB, but they didn’t mention”, he said. Shujaat vowed that any fraction of the Bill found to be inconsistent with teachings of Islam would immediately be amended.
“If the Chairman Roet-i-Hilal Committee considers anything in the Bill un-Islamic that should be brought before me; I personally will talk to Ministry of Law”, he concluded.—Agencies