JI urges govt to withdraw pro-women law

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, has called upon the Punjab government to immediately withdraw the Women Protection Law for being repugnant to Islam and in conflict with the constitution.

Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Friday, he said the law had been passed to please foreign masters and was an attempt to shatter the family system in the country. The new law had put the husband, the wife and the children on a dangerous track and it would only end up in the destruction of the society, he said.

He counseled the Punjab government not to make the issue a point of prestige and review it especially after being rejected by the Islamic Ideology Council.

Referring to the JI campaign for a Corruption Free Pakistan, Liaqat Baloch said that around 150 cases of mega corruption were not being heard. He said that the entire political and electoral system of the country was in the hands of corrupt people who were not ready to abandon their hold. Due to massive corruption, the constitutional and basic human rights of the people were being violated.

Liaqat Baloch said that the JI drive against corruption was a move to create an awakening among the masses. He said that as long as the masses were not united against the evil, the prevailing system of oppression, injustice and exploitation would continue and the people would not get their due rights.

He said that by the middle of the current month, the Corruption Free Movement drive would turn into a national movement. He said that a national seminar in this regard was being held at Islamabad on March 6 .

By executing Mumtaz Qadri, the rulers have tried to please a small secular and anti Islam lobby in the country and the government has put the country on a path of confrontation, he said.

He said the designs of the secular lobby were quite clear. However, he said that Mumtaz Qadri’s execution had brought the religious forces on one platform. He said the religious parties already stood united for the enforcement of the Islamic laws and against the ban on the Tableeghi Jamaat, he added.

While commenting on  MQM leader Mustafa Kamal’s press conference, Liaqat Baloch said that a high level enquiry commission should be set up to investigate all the allegations leveled by Kamal adding that the governments and the establishment were never unaware of MQM’s activities.