NGOs add to women’s problems: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq said parties and NGOs doing politics in the name of women rights had only added to the problems and hardships of womenfolk.
He said this while addressing the women training convention through telephone at Mansoora from Islamabad on Friday.
Sirajul Haq said Almighty Allah had made women the queen of the household whereas all those engaged in the so-called struggle for women’s rights had compelled the respectable mothers, sisters and daughters to work round the clock. The JI wants to accord the women the status given to them by the Creator, he added.
He said the JI was the strongest and the most effective voice for women’s rights. He said the JI had the biggest women wing of all the political parties in the country which was struggling for the social, economic and political rights of the womenfolk. Besides, he said, the JI had given representation to the women in its central Shoora. Sirajul Haq said the JI wanted to build Pakistan a true Islamic welfare state wherein all men and women could play their role in evolving an Islamic society in an atmosphere of respect and sense of responsibility.
He said to ensure women’s welfare and uplift, the Quranic injunction for women’s inheritance right must be strictly enforced. Besides, he said, there must be separate educational institutions and universities for women where they could learn all subjects and arts including science and technology in line with their aptitudes. This would enable them to play their due role in national development, he added.
He stressed that interest free loans should be offered for the women for small businesses and cottage industries and for an end to the system of dowry and demanded official ban on this practice. He said if the national wealth lying in the accounts of our politicians and bureaucrats abroad was retrieved, the country won’t need any aid from the IMF and all development and welfare projects including those of women could be completed easily.
Meanwhile, JI Naib Ameer Hafiz Muhammad Idrees, while delivering the Friday sermon at Mansoora Masjid, said the thumping victory of Justice and Development Party in Turkey was a wave of breeze and had pleased the entire Muslim world. He said the next government in Turkey would be supportive of the oppressed Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Burma and Syria.
Hafiz Muhammad Idrees said the day was not far off when an Islamic revolution would sweep this country as the prevailing system based on oppression and tyranny could not last long. He said there was a wave of change all over the world and South Asia would also witness a change. He said Hindu extremism and enmity towards Islam were at its peak in India and India was destined to fall prey to extremism.