Minority Hindus in Pak to have personnel law as Senate passes Bill

Islamabad, Feb 18: The minority Hindu community in Pakistan will have a personnel law for the first time from next week when President Mamnoon Hussain gives his assent to Hindu Marriage Bill 2017 passed unanimously by Senate yesterday.

However, the parliamentarians and other members of the community had expressed concerns over a clause of the bill that deals with ‘annulment of marriage’ which says that one of the partners can approach the court for separation if anyone of them changes the religion.

Though the bill was passed unanimously, Senator Mufti Abdul Sattar of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) had opposed it, claiming that the Constitution was vast enough to cater to such needs.