Members of Women’s Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) Wednesday expressed grave concerns over the rulings of Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), where were announced last week, calling the recommendations “shockingly alarming”.
The chairman of CII had demanded amendment in the National Marriage Law, so that men seeking to remarry did not require a written permission of their first wives. Secondly, the legislation, which prohibited underage marriages, was dubbed as un-Islamic by the council.
Expressing their concerns, the members of the WPC said that the law is completely in line with the Muslim Family Law and the Constitution of Pakistan.
They said that it can be witnessed that instances of domestic violence are on the rise in the present times, women are forced to self-immolate, rape cases and acid crimes have increased significantly and child abuse has reached alarming heights. They added that decrees of such controversial nature by CII do no good but aggravate the situation.
uagYJ -Sx?}�}ee-member bench headed by chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani issued verdict in the case pertaining to LB polls in Sindh and Punjab on Wednesday.
Earlier during the hearing, the Punjab government had sought four months from the SC for holding LB elections in the province.
Punjab Advocate General (AG) Mustafa Ramdy submitted a report pertaining to timeframe for the LB polls in the apex court. As per the report, the elections will be completed in 10 stages.
“It would take four months to prepare the legal draft bill and delimitation of constituencies for the LB elections,” the AG Punjab prayed in the court.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, in his short order said that the power to hold elections of the local government stands vested in the ECP. He said since the delimitation of constituencies of the local government is part of the process of organising and holding elections honestly, justly and fairly, which is the Constitutional mandate of the ECP, the power to carry out such delimitation should vest with the ECP as well.
The apex court ordered that the ECP ensure that the announcement of election schedule and the process of holding it is complete by or before of November15, 2014.
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At the meeting, Bin Laden rejected Akhtar’s request for help and urged him and other militant groups not to fight Pakistan but to serve the greater cause — the jihad against America. He warned against fighting inside Pakistan because it would destroy their home base: “If you make a hole in the ship, the whole ship will go down,” he had said.
According to the report Bin Laden said that Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and the Indian Ocean region would be Al Qaeda’s main battlefields in the coming years, and that he needed more fighters from those areas. He even offered naval training for militants, saying that the United States would soon exit Afghanistan and that the next war would be waged on the seas.
Pakistani intelligence sources termed allegations made in The New York Times report as baseless, stating that no one was aware of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts.
