Call to ensure women’s inheritance rights

LAHORE: Speakers at a seminar have stressed the need to ensure all rights of inheritance in property matters as given to women in Islam and said depriving them of their rights is cruelty upon them. The seminar was organised by Centre for Quran and Sunnat at PU Al Raazi Hall here on Tuesday. Punjab University Pro Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar, International Islamic University’s Shariah Academy Director General Dr Abdul Hayee Abro, Dean Faculty of Islamic Studies Prof Dr Hammad Lakhvi, Faculty of Business, Economics and Administrative Sciences Prof Dr Mumtaz Anwar Ch, Chairman Ranking Committee Dr Khalid Mahmood, Director Institute of Islamic Studies Dr Saad Siddiqui, Centre for Quran and Sunnah (CQS) Prof Dr Harris Mobeen, faculty members and a large number of students participated in the event. In his address, Prof Dr Saleem Mazhar said people who did not give inheritance rights to the women could not protect their rights.