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| India-Pakistan |
| Who's afraid of CII? |
| 2014-04-08 |
| [DAWN] LATELY, more and more voices are being raised for the abolition of the Council of Islamic Ideology. The strongest demand has come from the Sindh Assembly which, through a unanimous resolution passed on March 31, asked the federal government to get rid of this body citing recent anti-women views expressed by it. Earlier several civil society organizations and women's rights groups had made similar demands. The CII has lately hogged the headlines with a flurry of opinions and recommendations that, if considered, would roll back whatever some positive legislation, enacted over several decades, has managed to achieve for women's rights. Its first salvo was against DNA testing in cases of rape. DNA tests, in most countries that prefer to live by the rules of law and justice, are considered the most conclusive evidence not only in instances of rape but in other crimes as well. As long as DNA test reports are not accepted as primary evidence in rape cases by Pakistain's judicial system, the conviction rate for rape will remain negligible and survivors will continue to be denied justice. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Iff the War for OWG-NWO was supposed to include the pro-secular modernization of Islam, clearly it isn't working. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-04-08 19:44 |