The Women’s Protection Bill (WPB) was repugnant to Islamic injunctions, but the government had passed it to please its ‘Western masters’, said Jamiat Ahle Hadith Ameer Senator Prof Sajid Mir on Monday.Addressing the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA), he said that the clerics’ recommendations were not given a consideration, but all what President Pervez Musharraf wanted was included in the bill. He said that changes in the school syllabus and bombing of religious seminaries were a planned agenda against Islam.
He said that punishment for rape or fornication included in the bill was un-Islamic. “According to the bill, if a husband accuses his wife of adultery and she confesses it, no action will be taken against her except divorcing her,” he said, adding that such a woman should be treated under rape offence according to Islam.
He admitted that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) supported the president on various issues, including the 17th amendment, but the president betrayed it by not resigning from the army. He accused the government of corruption and had failed to maintain law and order. He said that the entire opposition would resign from the assemblies at a suitable time.