The members were informed that the prime minister would soon attend a meeting of the council and discuss the proposed framework after it was finalised. The ministers also invited the CII members to participate in the opening of the Kartarpur border crossing scheduled for Wednesday (today). The ministers conveyed a message of Prime Minister Imran Khan seeking the CII’s guidance for making Pakistan an Islamic welfare state on the pattern of that established by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in Madina. The request was forwarded by Minister for Religious Affairs Dr Noorul Haq Qadri and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan who arrived in the meeting hall at around 11am and remained there for more than two hours. The CII suspended its agenda regarding triple talaq in one sitting to discuss a request by the government for devising an implementation framework to replicate the ‘State of Madina’ in Pakistan. “The responsibility to implement recommendations of the CII is with the government and we want severe punishments for those clerics who misuse their powers and issue fatwas declaring Muslims non-believer or non-Muslim and pronounce them liable to be killed as per Sharia law,” Dr Ayaz said, adding: “All such decrees have been rejected by the council.” Government seeks council’s guidance for making Pakistan an Islamic welfare state The document signed by 1,829 religious scholars declares several actions un-Islamic - including suicide attacks against the state, spreading sectarianism and anarchy in the name of religion and issuing a call to jihad without the consent of the state. Presiding over a meeting of the CII, its chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz said the council had prepared a comprehensive document - Paigham-i-Pakistan - in January this year that had been acknowledged by senior clergymen belonging to all four mainstream schools of thoughts in the country.
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) demanded on Tuesday that the government enhance punishments for those misusing their powers to issue religious decrees (fatwas).
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