‘Islam provides rights to women’

LAHORE: Noted religious scholar Maulana Dr Raghib Hussain Naeemi has said that Islam has provided unprecedented rights to women and gave respect to them at the time when girls were being buried alive in Arab society.

He was addressing a seminar on Seerat and the status of women jointly organised by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and Punjab University’s Department of Gender Studies at Al Raazi Hall here on Tuesday.

Institute of Islamic Studies Director Prof Dr Saad Siddiqui, former dean Prof Dr Tahira Basharat, Dr Shahida Parveen, Department of Gender Studies Incharge Dr Raana Malik, faculty members and a large number of students were present on the occasion. Maulana Dr Raghib Hussain said in Islam women are shareholders in the wealth of both parents and husband and they have right to choose their life partners.