Govt yields to MMA on Hudood laws: Fazl brought to capital aboard special helicopter
By Ahmad Hassan; Dawn: September 1, 2006
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The government on Monday succumbed to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s pressure for renegotiating the controversial Women’s Rights bill apparently because of the alliance’s threat to quit assemblies and provincial governments if the bill was passed without its consent.
With a team of government-appointed ulema rejecting a number of clauses, the bill — which had been finalised by the National Assembly’s select committee — became ineffective and in effect stood withdrawn, and now a redrafted bill would be tabled in parliament.
Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and MMA secretary-general Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced that his alliance had succeeded in making the government realise that it was wrong in bringing the bill to parliament without a consensus.
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