Senator Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, Secretary General of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Sindh, has accused the government for demolishing the MMA proposals and accused the President, General Musharraf, and his associates of blackmailing the public in the name of Women’s rights protection act.
He asserted that government did not agree to MMA’s proposals regarding women’s property rights, sell of daughters, forced marriages, daughters given in compensations settlement of murders, divorces etc.
He stated that the Act is completely against the spirit of Islam and Shariah, which is not safeguarding women but laying the foundation of anti- Islamic society.
He urged the ulema, scholars of all schools of thought to unite and reject the act.
He said,
‘we are proud to be fundamentalists and would contest against what he called ‘progressives’. The MMA had decided to fight in and outside the parliament to force the government to withdraw the act, which would not give space to the president to act freely.’
