Legislation against dowry, preventing girls from education demanded

Islamabad
The Member of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi, has submitted two resolutions to the Chairman of the CII, Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, demanding legislation against the custom of dowry and against preventing the girls from their right to education in the name of Islam.
Talking to ‘The News’, Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi said that he has been raising these issues from various platforms for quite some time and now the time has come that legislation should be done to prevent these two evils of the society.
“Innumerable young girls are sitting at their parents’ homes only because their families cannot arrange enough dowries to wed them off. This is a crime against the young girls and a persistent emotional torture for their parents. And we have seen that such situations eventually lead to social evils and immoral activities in the society,” Ashrafi said.
“Similarly,” he added, “we have seen such cases being very common where the parents or other members of the families have prevented young girls from going to schools, colleges or universities implying that modern education is against the teachings of Islam and thus is not allowed in light of religion.”
He said that both these acts are social evils prevailing in the society and there is a strong need that such practices should be legally and constitutionally stopped. He said that he has sent resolutions on both the issues to the Chairman of the CII, Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, urging him to initiate legislation on these two very important factors which are badly impacting the poor people all over the country in one form or the other.