JUI-F vows to oppose women protection bill if tabled

PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter on Wednesday threatened to oppose the women protection bill if the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government tried to table it.

“No one will be allowed to present the women protection bill in the provincial assembly of this province as it is contrary to Shariah,” JUI-F provincial chief Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan said. He was talking to reporters after presiding over his party’s provincial executive council meeting here.

We think that the Punjab government is serving the interests of NGOs. This bill is contrary to Shariah and is against the spirit of 1973 Constitution,” he added

The JUI-F leader alleged that Punjab government was serving the interests of the NGOs by passing the women protection bill.

“We won’t let anybody turn Pakistan into a secular state,” he said.

Coming down hard on the KP government, he said that PTI government was also working on the western agenda as it had also left education and health sectors at the mercy of NGOs, which was a pre-panned conspiracy to spoil valued traditions of this province.  “This trend will certainly promote arms culture in the province,” he claimed.