Who Is a Successful Woman?
Who are the Pakistani group proposing to 'lightly beat' women?
A Pakistani group has come under
fire for drafting a women's protection bill that suggests a husband can
"lightly beat" his wife to keep her in line. What is this body and
does it have any real power? The BBC's M Ilyas Khan explains. It
is called the Council of Islamic Ideology Created by
a military government in 1961, the Council of Islamic ideology (CII) is a
20-member constitutional body that advises the government on religious aspects
of the law and society - but its recommendations are not binding. The
constitution says CII members should be "well-qualified". It
specifies that the council should have at least two retired judges, four
members with a minimum of 15 years of experience in Islamic research and
teaching, and that members should have an "understanding of the economic,
political, legal or administrative problems of Pakistan". In
practice though, this definition has been stretched to include men from
religious pressure groups whose caree…
