Why Penalize the Wives?
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd.)
Rawalpindi, Pakistan


A dangerously strange verdict was given by a maulvi of the NWFP assembly who observed that all those legislators who had not voted in line with the party dictates in the recently held elections for the Senators must divorce their wives! I simply fail to understand what is the fault of the poor wives if their husbands did not tow the party line and why must they (wives) be punished for the crime of their husbands?
I admit my inadequacy in such Fiqahi matters and would request the Federal Shariat Court to intervene if the verdict is not in the true Islamic spirit, before an irreparable harm is done to some innocent lady.

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