Opposition leader in the National Assembly and MMA Secretary-General, Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday said that the MMA would not allow the government to pass the Women Protection Bill without its consent. “Only that bill will be acceptable to the MMA in which recommendations of the Ulema Committee were incorporated”, Fazl told a news conference after presiding over the central working committee of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI).The government was planning to table the bill in the National Assembly on Wednesday (today), which, he said, was against the injunctions of the Holy Qur’aan and the Sunnah. He advised the government to respect the parliamentary traditions and should not go for legislation of the controversial bill in haste. “The government will find itself in crisis if it goes for legislation setting aside the directives of the Qur’aan and the Sunnah,” he said.
Fazal said the central working committee of the JUI-F paid tributes to the NWFP government for passing the Hasba Bill despite hurdles created by the federal government. “The people of the NWFP had given mandate to the MMA and the NWFP government respected it by passing the Hasba Bill.”