In Pakistan a controversial
recommendation was made by a State affiliated Islamic body in its so called
women protection bill which states husbands in Pakistan can lightly beat their
wives if they disobey.
This is really weird
recommendation which is given by the Islamic body and that too under women
protection bill. This body is called CII (The council of Islamic ideology) and
it has constitutional status in Pakistan which also gives non- binding
proposals to the Parliament to make laws according to Islam.
This controversial bill was
prepared after the CII rejected Punjab’s protection of women against violence
Act 2015 as un- Islamic.
The conditions of women in
Pakistan and not of the other Muslim countries are not good because this is not
the first time this kind of controversial recommendations are made against them
but earlier also so many fatwas and recommendations are made specially for women’s.
There are several bans on
women and according to Express Tribune the 163 page draft bill proposed several
bans on women. In this case PPWA, passed the Punjab assembly, gives the legal
protection to women from domestic psychological and sexual violence and calls
for the creation of a toll- free abuse reporting hot line and also the
establishment of women shelter and now the CII will forward its proposed bill
to the Punjab Assembly.
According to the bill a
husband should be allowed to lightly beat his wife if she defies his commands,
refuses to dress up as per his wishes and turns down demand of physical
contact.
It is also suggested in the
bill that if a women refuses to wear hijab, interacts with strangers, speaks
loud or give money to people without taking consent of her husband.
It was further recommended
that co-education should be banned after primary education, women cannot take
part in military combat, and they cannot welcome foreign delegations, cannot
interact with males and make recreational visits with strangers.
Even in hospitals female
nurses cannot take care of male patients and women should also be banned from
working in advertisements.
Woman’s cannot abort their
child after 120 days of conceiving and should be declared murder.
However, women are allowed
to take part in politics and contract a Nikah without taking permission from
their parents.
In case if a woman is not Muslim and forced to convert, then the oppressor
will be awarded 3 years imprisonment while the woman will not be murdered if
she reverts to her previous faith.
