Islam gives women high status: CJP

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Friday said that Islam has given women a high status, and there is a hadith that heaven is under the feet of the mother.

Justice Isa was addressing a function held here at the Federal Judicial Academy, organised on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

The CJP said that we are living in an Islamic society, and the supreme authority rests with Allah.

He said that taking a wrong understanding of Islamic teachings, women were deprived of education.

Addressing on the occasion, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, senior judge of the Supreme Court, said that the awareness of women is necessary for the awareness of the society.

The judge said that the number of women in the judiciary is very low, currently the percentage is 17 percent, which should be 50 percent.

“We want to increase the number of women in the judiciary,” Justice Shah said, adding that women are also harassed at workplaces.

He further said that the number of women staff in the entire country’s judiciary is two percent, adding that there is no female judge in the Federal Shariat Court.

“We have to review the policy for the appointment of judges in the judiciary,” the senior judge said, adding that in order to ensure provision of justice across the country, there should be 20,000 judges of which 10,000 should be women.