CII

Council will take up several bills and proposals

Council of Islamic Ideology opines that in case of sales tax, labourers and landlords have to pay the same levy

Council’s official says religious body is not merely an advisory body

A leading member of the CII has recently gone on record to state that it has the right to issue fatwas on all issues

Council proposes own bill against physical torture of children, prepared in accordance with Islamic injunctions

CII chairman laments that government has failed to legislate Islamic laws unlike what was done during dictatorships

Why must only the law relating to women’s rights have the stamp of CII approval?

There are people who want to create some space in blasphemy law, which is what Salmaan Taseer was trying to achieve

An all-parties conference asks the government to retract the law passed by Punjab Assembly last month

K-P government’s insistence on referring draft of provincial domestic violence bill to the CII is a disturbing move

CII’s rulings came a day after it voiced concerns on parts of a similar bill recently tabled in the K-P Assembly

Women's Protection Act, passed in Punjab Assembly last week, gives legal protection to women from violence

Maulana Sheerani says top religious body will decide tomorrow whether to accept the bill or not

Maulana Sherani says Salmaan Taseer's killer punished for taking law into his own hands

Khula is the prerogative of a husband, not the courts, the CII observed

Ask civil courts to differentiate between Khula and unilateral dissolution of marriage by wife

Claims the council is advising govt to overturn many un-Islamic laws

Muhammad Khan Sherani says council will see whether sentences as harsh as the death penalty are fair

Members say Maulana Sherani must be removed

Parliamentary committee rejected the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2014 after CII dubbed it “anti-Islamic”

According to Mr Sherani, women are alien combatants: they have no rights — not before marriage, not during divorce...

Two CII members entered into an argument over the status of Ahmadis under the Constitution that ended up in a scuffle

Scuffle broke out as Maulana Sherani started talking about the legal status of Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan

According to reports, Ashrafi lunged at Sherani when he was called an 'alcoholic'

CII chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani advises women to follow ethics and have a careful attitude in society

Courts are dissolving Nikkah in the name of Khula, which is not correct