Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Jan 24, 2
Posted: 15 Mar 2016 23:32
Religious parties denounce law protecting women from abuse as 'un-Islamic'
Reuters
Reuters
All these modern day measures are obviously UnIslamicLAHORE: An all-parties conference convened by Jamaat-i-Islami and attended by powerful religious groups asked the government on Tuesday to retract an “un-Islamic” law that gives unprecedented protection to female victims of violence.
The Women's Protection Act, passed by Punjab Assembly last month, gives legal protection to women from domestic, psychological and sexual violence.
It also calls for the creation of a toll-free abuse reporting hot line, women's shelters and district-level panels to investigate reports of abuse and mandates the use of GPS bracelets to keep track of offenders.
IMO, they are aiming to be # 1 !Domestic abuse, economic discrimination and acid attacks made Pakistan the world's third most dangerous country in the world for women, a 2011 Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll showed.
“The controversial law to protect women was promulgated to accomplish the West's agenda to destroy the family system in Pakistan,” read the joint declaration issued at the end of the concrescence.“This act ... is redundant and would add to the miseries of women.”
In the wake of Qadri's hanging, NS cannot afford to further alienate the Mullah Brigade; liberalization plans to be put in cold storage -like the national census !Earlier this month, the Council of Islamic Ideology, a religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam, declared the Women's Protection Act un-Islamic.
A prominent lawyer has also filed a petition in the top sharia court asking it to strike down the law.