Hawzah News Agency- Jamaat Islami has strongly protested in the National Assembly (NA) against recent legislation in Sindh Assembly that non-Muslims below the age of 18 could not embrace or convert to Islam.

While speaking at Point of Order on Friday at National Assembly, JI Parliamentary Leader Sahibzada Tariq Ullah emphasized that Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam, while laws against the Quran and Sunnah could not be accepted or supported under any circumstances in the country. He further said that stopping youngsters and teens from converting to Islam is against Islamic principles.

He asserted that no principal of Islam has stopped any underage person from converting to Islam, therefore, JI will never support the following legislation. No such law should be made as in the current era of modern technology, non-Muslim youth convert to Islam using Internet, said JI parliamentary leader.

He further pointed out that such type of ban is also not found either in Europe or India. He stressed that we support and respect all the minorities in Pakistan, however, some significance matters are connected with our religion that can not opposed under any condition.

While condemning the governments move for presenting the bill, PPP Parliamentary Leader Syed Naved Qamar said that the government kept us in the Dark as the debate was to be held on Indian Agression, while govt presented the bill for legislation in the house. He tried to clarify Sindh governments position for passing the law of converting underage Non-Muslim to Islam and said that the law was passed in the Sindh Assembly to avoid and resolve issues of the forcible conversion of underage non-Muslim to Islam in Sindh. The PPP Parliamentary leader also pointed out the issue of Lack of Qorum and said that it was our legal right to raise the issue.