Fazl seeks
Supreme Court intervention over WPB
RAWALPINDI—Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal’s central leader Maulana Fazlur
Rehman has asked supreme court to take notice of Women Protection Bill
saying the bill is absolutely anti Shariah and repugnant to Quran and
Sunnah.
He said this while addressing JUI-F Rawalpindi meeting held here Sunday
in Jamia Furqania Kohati bazaar. He held that the people will reject the
rulers in the next elections as they are supporting president Bush
policies. MMA will continue its struggle to apprise the people of the
evil intents and designs of the rulers.
He underscored US is pursuing double standards about the Muslims. No
Muslim can keep mum over the atrocities being perpetrated over the
Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine by US. President Bush is
meting out discriminatory treatment to the Muslims. Anti Muslim policies
being followed by Bush has fomented hatred against him among the Muslims
all over the world. The Americans have voiced their hatred against Bush
during the recently concluded elections, he added. He went on to say
that no law can be enacted against Quran and Sunnah in the country as
per constitution. Rulers have breached limits set by Almighty Allah and
given it the name of WPB. Government is making mockery of Quran and
Sunnah by terming WPB Islamic.
Council of Islamic Ideology has a set procedure to approve any bill, he
said adding what a strange it is the members of the council have said
some thing during their meeting with president and government is giving
it the name of support for WPB. He alleged rulers are heading the
country towards secularism.
Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) Secretary General and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam
(JUI-F) Amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman Sunday asked his party workers to
start door-to-door campaign and inform people about the “evils effects”
of the present government.
Speaking at the general council meeting of his JUI-F here, Maulana
alleged that Women Protection Bill (WPB) did not provide protection to
women rights, but confiscating them.
“Our rulers have breached injunctions of the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah and
named it protection of women act,” he said adding that “this bill has
left women unsafe. A very few westernized women may have liked it, but
millions of modest Pakistani women have disliked it.”
Maulana Fazlur Rehman said Muslim scholars from all over the country
have unanimously rejected WPB as an un-Islamic and violative to the
injunctions of the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah, but the government was paying
head to a few “so-called Ulema” who have endorsed this act. He said the
government claims that Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has endorsed
WPB as according to Qur’an and Sunnah. “The Council is an organization,
which formulates Fazl asks apex court to take notice of WPB.—Online |
