JI to protect women’s status given in Islam: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq has said that Islam renders respect and honour to the womenfolk and those treating them as a market commodity are their enemies, not well-wishers.
Addressing Khadijatul Kubra Women Conference at Mansoora in connection with International Women’s Day, Sirajul Haq said that women rights were discussed in papers but found nowhere in the real world. He said the JI would protect the exalted status of women as given by Islam.
He said that for protection of women’s rights, all the candidates for the respective assemblies should be directed to submit certificates denoting that they gave due rights to their sisters, daughters and wives.The JI chief said that an oppressive, exploitative and class-based system prevailed in the country, as poor people were committing suicides en masse. He said that France and the Britain were providing old-age allowance to its senior citizens. He asked why this allowance couldn’t be given to them in Pakistan. He viewed that the reason was that rulers in the country had taken over all its resources.
He said that JI, on assuming power, would establish separate colleges, universities and health institutions for women, making their education compulsory and ensuring 100 percent female literacy. He said that in the Occupied Kashmir, Hindus were disgracing Muslim women and had martyred thousands of Kashmiri youths, however, the Pakistani rulers were keen in establishing trade and cultural relations with India instead of lodging protest against excesses of the Indian troops.