Pakistan: Council of Islamic Ideology expresses its reservation towards several provisions of Domestic Violence Bill in 2020

The council had even recommended halting the legislation process until the Islamic constitutional body reviewed the bill and gave its findings to the government, media reports said.

The CII considered the bill in November 2020 after it was laid before the National Assembly. However, the opinion of the CII was conveyed to the Human Rights Ministry in the third week of June only after the bill generated controversy following its passage in the Senate, reports The News International.

A senior official of the Human Rights Ministry when approached told the newspaper that upon receiving the Council’s letter, the ministry had halted the process and now the ministry would move ahead in consultation with the CII.

The HR ministry official told the newspaper that the bill is now the property of the National Assembly.

Following the CII’s reservations and in view of the prime minister’s decision to halt the legislative process until the Council gives its opinion about the bill, everything has stopped vis a vis the Domestic Violence Bill, the Pakistani newspaper reported.