In the aftermath of the royal rumble at the Council of Islamic Ideology, where Maulanas Ashrafi and Sherani did the whole dast-o-gareban routine, there has been much debate on the need to have the council in the first place.
Though such views have always been a talking point for the liberals, this time, the conservatives chimed in too, if only to say that the present dispensation should be done away with.
Well, the issue was discussed in the Senate recently, where the secular PPP suggested doing away with it, to which the JUI-F’s Senator Hamdullah replied that the suggestion was coming from the same party whose members didn’t even know Surah-e-Ikhlas. This was, of course, a jab at former Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s faux pas when he couldn’t recite that bit of scripture in public.
Hamdullah went on to quip that even the Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen knew how to recite the Surah in question. Dawn News, in its package on the senate proceedings (below, for online viewers) dutifully showed the achingly beautiful Bengali actress reciting the same.
Senate Chairman Rabbani quipped back to Hamdullah that it appeared that, amongst other things, he stayed current on what the former Miss Universe was up to. Yes, I do, replied the Senator.
Well, the JUI-F always was more liberal than the JI.
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surah rahman
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