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Law against conversion of minors opposed
[DAWN] SUKKUR: Leaders of religious parties, including the proscribed ones, of all schools of thought have rejected in unison the Criminal Law (Protection of Minorities) Bill, 2015, recently passed by the Sindh Assembly that put curbs on conversion of children below 18 years of age.This kind of law had no precedent even in the US, Israel and India, they claimed. In Sukkur, Owais Noorani, general secretary of Jamaat Ulema-e-Pakistain (JUP), said at a gathering at Madressah Ghousia here on Sunday that the religious scholars would start a campaign against the controversial law from Dec 6. He said the members of the assembly, some of whom were direct heirs of saints and Sufis and custodians of shrines while some traced their origin to the great personalities of early Islam, should feel ashamed of themselves for making such a law. Mr Noorani said that late Abdullah Shah, former chief minister of Sindh, must be turning in his grave at the feat accomplished by his illustrious son, Syed Murad Ali Shah. Not a single bill proposed by the Council of Islamic Ideology had been made into law whereas this bill which was supported by NGOs and secular forces had been passed within no time, he said. He urged all religious organizations to hold peaceful protests throughout the country in order to preempt similar attempts by other assemblies to pass such laws. HYDERABAD: The head of Sindh chapter of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) Faisal Nadeem announced on Sunday holding an all-party conference (PAC) of Sindh today (Monday) in Hyderabad to evolve a strategy against the controversial bill. He said at a gathering of party activists at Markaz Abdul Rehman Bin Auf on the Autobahn road that all religious and political parties would attend the APC where the religious scholars and prominent political figures of the province would unanimously raise voice against the law. He said that Pakistain Peoples Party was passing such laws to appease somebody or someone. Such law was never passed even by any foreign country, including the US, Israel and India, or any other provincial assembly of this country, he said. He said the APC would prove to be a starting point of a movement against the bill. The protests were aimed at preventing such attempts in future as well, he said. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-28 |
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