JUP sticks to resignations
From Zeeshan Mirza

KARACHI—Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP), a component of the six-party religious alliance, Muttahida Majlis-e-Ammal (MMA), on Monday announced that the party legislators would present their resignations from the lower house to the speaker in the very next sitting of the assembly in protest against the controversial Women Protection Bill, which, they believed, is contrary to Qunran and Sunnah.
Senior Vice President of JUP, Sahibzada Abul Khair Muhammad Zubair MNA, who was flanked by General Secretary JUP Qari Zawar Bahadur, Sindh President Mufti Muhammad Sharif Sarki and other party leaders, addressing a press conference here at Karachi Press Club said that JUP would also mount pressure on other component parties of the religious alliance to quit assemblies as per earlier decision of the MMA Supreme Council.
The JUP leader said that they consider it a ‘sin’ to sit in an assembly, which framed legislation against Quran and Sunnah. He said that the JUP would try to convince other parties of the alliance, who are reluctant to quit assembly, to resign from the Lower House in protest against the bill.