Pakistan

Some parts of K-P domestic violence bill against spirit of Islam: CII chairman

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

Obaid Abassi March 02, 2016

JUI-F lawmaker Maulana Sherani. PHOTO: FILE

Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani on Wednesday expressed concern over the domestic violence bill tabled recently in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly.

"Some clauses of the bill are against the spirit of Islam," the JUI-F Senator who is the chairman of the 20-member body, which only has only one woman member, said.

CII to take up K-P domestic violence bill

Sheerani further said that the country's top religious body will decide tomorrow (Thursday) whether to accept it or not.

The K-P government sent the much-delayed bill to the advisory council to seek its opinion as the matter involves interpretation of Islamic injunctions. The government claims the proposed law has been pending with the CII for the past two months.

The CII chairman also criticised the government and incumbent lawmakers for repeatedly passing resolutions calling for the abolition of the religious body. "I am appalled at the workings of the government and the Parliament," Maulana Sheerani said.

I respect Pakistan's Constitution more than Qadri's religious sentiments: CII chairman

Regarding the execution of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's killer, the CII chairman said, "Qadri's act was laudable but he took the law into his own hands which is not right.

The CII is a constitutional body which advises the legislature whether or not a certain law is compliant with Sharia.

COMMENTS (15)

kakar | 8 years ago | Reply Maulana Sherani is an astute politician. He has viciously exploited religion to grind his own secular and political axe. He gleefully accepted NAZRANA of land cruiser from a deceased politician ostensibly who gifted it for some political gain and payback. He admitted his children not in a Madrassah but in the most expensive residential college in Lahore. He forced Mullah Asmat ullah to form a breakaway faction- though he merged it again with JUIf. He is more a tribal elder in his area than a religious leader. He has always managed to keep close to corridors of power. Using the platform of CII he is intent on establishing his religious credentials just to play to his rural gallery. Kudos he has played his cards judiciously.

syed & syed | 8 years ago | Reply @Babbarsher Khan:Please do not compare Iran with mentioned states. Since revolution 10 parliamentary election and 5 presidential elections are held. Clergy is there to give Friday sermons and point out grievances to the elected President. Schooling having modern mindset can be compared with that in advanced countries except that they have one subject on religion. Please check the constitution of Iran on google.com. Advancement is made in every sphere i.e. military, space, industries, motorways and railways and what not. Every Iranian is paid over 45,000 Toomans per head new born or old. Please read about Iran

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Mani | 8 years ago | Reply They are an advisory body. So they can "accept" or "reject" this bill all they want. Does not mean squat. K-P Assembly should be able to pass the bill with or without CII's blessings.

TooTrue | 8 years ago | Reply “Qadri’s act was laudable but he took the law into his own hands which is not right" You, sir, are a fat and fatuous waste of space. Your kangaroo committee should be dissolved and you should be sent packing.

syed & syed | 8 years ago | Reply Khomeni of Iran never wore gold bordered cloak. He wore ordinary cloak being worn by other molavis.Mr Sherani was member of the parliament and a politician. This post was given to him not by virtue of having full knowledge of Islamic jurisprudence whereas Khomeini of Iran attended school and then started teaching in renowned Madaris.

Babbarsher Khan | 8 years ago | Reply “Qadri’s act was laudable but he took the law into his own hands which is not right.......", this speaks in volume where this medieval mindset comes from. If we continue to give respect to the views of barbarians of Sheerani's school, we will soon be marching ahead of Idi Amin's Uganda, Salman's Saudia or Khomeini's Iran in medievalism. We refuse to be a country of intellectually challenged zombies!

cheebz | 8 years ago | Reply we got some weird people running the CII.. need a whole makeover of the members.. especially Maulana Sheerani.. Qadris act Laudable? seriously? that shows how they interpret islam.

MSH | 8 years ago | Reply This Mullah sent to CII by after a bargain between Zardari and Fazul Rehman has no job but to create more and more confusion about religion to please his masters.They have made a mockery of religion and have made Islam laughing stock.

Mahmud ul Majeed | 8 years ago | Reply Is islamic Ideology Council Islamic? Cii should be disbanded because there was none in the Islamic era.

AAA | 8 years ago | Reply Lets call a convention and get rid of this constituional body which seem to be nothing but a deterrent to stable and prosperous Pakistan!

Cain | 8 years ago | Reply @echoboom you cant do that to any language.

Rao | 8 years ago | Reply I am just curious-no offence to Maulana Sheerani-, why is he has been wearing gold bordered cloak? Is it a mark of clerical superiority like Khomeni of Iran did during Iranian revolutions? Any explanation?

echoboom | 8 years ago | Reply liberaloons, secularoons, and murtadoons must be crushed in Pakistan

mirestan | 8 years ago | Reply Please elaborate Islamic law about the domestic valance against women, Sura Nasa says says if women disobey, lock her in the room beat her is correct interpretation. Time has come to change this to this time.

SKN | 8 years ago | Reply The day these dinosaurs go extinct, a new better day will dawn.

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