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Minorities protection bill: Sindh High Court questions maintainability of challenge

Minorities protection bill: Sindh High Court questions maintainability of challenge

Karachi, Feb 22 (UNI) The Sindh High Court (SHC) has questioned the maintainability of a petition, challenging the protection of minorities bill, which had outlawed marriages and conversion of underage girls. Media reports said a division bench of the SHC, headed by Justice Irfan Saadat Khan, directed counsel representing a private welfare organisation, Protection of New Muslims-Pakistan, to satisfy the court on the maintainability of its petition on March 16. The organisation had filed the petition through its president, Dr Mian M Arshad, who had named the federal and provincial religious affairs ministries, the secretary to the state chief minister, the Assembly speaker and provincial chief secretary as respondents. It contended that the organisation had been arranging the marriages of newly-converted people and providing them with legal assistance and shelter since years in the province. However, the Sindh government had passed in November last year the Protection of Minorities Bill, which was repugnant to the injunctions of Islam and the Constitution as there was no hindrance of age limit for any person for conversion to Islam, Dr Arshad submitted. More UNI XC RP1550

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