Anti-women Islamofascist mullahs win again!

Senate defers bill on women’s rights at workplace
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By Muhammad Anis

ISLAMABAD: The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2009, which was moved in the Senate on Tuesday, was deferred as senators from Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam expressed their reservations, saying it was not sufficient to protect the rights of women at work place.

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2009, which provides for higher punishment for women harassment in the offices, has already been passed unanimously by the National Assembly. Now it requires approval by the Senate before it is sent to the president.

The bill seeks to amend both the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, “increasing the punishment for the crime to up to three years in prison and a fine of up to Rs 500,000 from up to three years and unspecified fine already provided in the PPC for a vague ‘insult (to) the modesty of a woman’.

According to the bill, whosever makes any sound or gesture, utters any word, exhibits any object or demands sexual favour from women at work place would also face the punishment. The bill in the Senate was moved by the Leader of the House Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari.

The senators belonging to the JI and the JUI-F said that they agreed with the aims and objectives of the bill but had some reservations on the way it would be implemented. Senator Professor Muhammad Ibrahim suggested the bill should not be passed in haste. He said the lacunas in the bill should be removed. “If it is misused, companies will render women jobless and stop further employment of woman workers,” he said.

Maulana Gul Naseeb of the JUI-F was of the opinion that such an implementation of the bill would promote Western values in an Islamic country like Pakistan. “Instead, we should go for refining the society in accordance with the Islamic values,” he said. Giving an example, he said in a European country, a wife could call the police even when her husband was giving her an advice, and he was imprisoned. Maulana Gul Naseeb said the bill should strike a balance.
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