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| India-Pakistan |
| Senate passes landmark Hindu marriage bill |
| 2017-02-19 |
| [DAWN] The Hindu community is set to have a personal law for the first time as the Senate on Friday unanimously passed ’The Hindu Marriage Bill 2017’. The bill -- approved by the National Assembly on Sept 26, 2015 -- is likely to get presidential assent next week to become a law. The bill will mainly help Hindu women get documentary proof of their marriage. It will be the first personal law for Pak Hindus, applicable in Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sindh has already formulated its own Hindu marriage law. The bill presented in the Senate by Law Minister Zahid Hamid faced no opposition or objection. It was mainly due to the considerate and sympathetic views expressed by the senators and the MNAs of all political parties in the relevant standing committees. The bill was approved by the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Jan 2 with an overwhelming majority. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Senator Mufti Abdul Sattar of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl had opposed the bill, claiming that the Constitution was vast enough to cater for such needs. While approving the bill, committee chairperson Senator Nasreen Jalil of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... had announced: "This was unfair -- not only against the principles of Islam but also a human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violation -- that we have not been able to formulate a personal family law for the Hindus of Pakistain." |
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