Religious parties denounce ‘un-Islamic’ women protection law

<div class="detail-img entry-box" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; float: left; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 740px;"> <div class="entry-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px;"> <img alt="Religious parties denounce ‘un-Islamic’ women protection law" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" src="http://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2016-03-15/l_102326_050245_updates.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 740px;" title="Religious parties denounce ‘un-Islamic’ women protection law" /></div> </div> <div class="post-138 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-nulla entry-box" id="post-138" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 30px;"> <div class="entry-content entry-full-content clearfix" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">LAHORE: An all-parties conference convened by Pakistan’s oldest Islamic political party 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.</strong></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> The Women´s Protection Act, passed by Pakistan´s largest province of Punjab last month, gives legal protection to women from domestic, psychological and sexual violence.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> 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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> 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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> But since the law´s passage, many conservative clerics and religious leaders have denounced it as being in conflict with holy Quran and the constitution.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> On Tuesday, representatives of more than 35 religious parties and groups came together for a conference called by the Jamaat-e-Islami party and condemned the women´s protection law as un-Islamic.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> "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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> "This act ... is redundant and would add to the miseries of women."</div> </div> </div>

Religious parties denounce ‘un-Islamic’ women protection law

LAHORE: An all-parties conference convened by Pakistan’s oldest Islamic political party and attended by powerful religious groups asked the government on Tuesday to retract an "un-Islamic" law that g…

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