Apropos 'Make it mandatory for every woman to enter into wedlock: JUI(F) Senator' carried by the newspaper the other day, women senators staged a walkout from Senate against a suggestion floated by one of their male colleague from a religious party that there should be a law to make it mandatory for a woman to get married if she reaches the age of 30.
The women senators on the opposition benches from different political parties left the house in protest against Senator Hafiz Hamdullah of Jamiat Ulemae-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), who floated a suggestion on the floor of house that there should be a law to make it mandatory for every woman to enter into wedlock as she reaches the age of 30 or beyond.
Hamdullah also came up with a strange suggestion, arguing that rape cases could largely be averted if girls are married at an early age, adding that Council of Islamic Ideology in its recommendations has suggested that a girl under 18 years of age can also get married. Although, women Senators protest was quite warranted, the Maulana's suggestion merits a careful and serious consideration. The Senate must initiate a scientific investigation into ascertaining whether or not the rising incidence of rape cases has got to do anything with the factors outlined by the Maulana. That the government has failed to deliver on this front is a fact that has found its best expression in the statistics presented by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. It is, therefore, required to arrest this alarming trend without any further loss of time.
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