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Sindh Governor returns Bill against forced conversion
In a setback for Hindu and other minority religious communities in Pakistan, the Sindh Governor on Saturday sent back to the provincial Assembly for reconsideration a recently-passed Minorities Bill which criminalises forced conversions in the Muslim-majority country.
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The ailing Governor, Justice (retd) Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, sent back Criminal Law (Protection of Minorities) Bill without ratifying it.
“Please reconsider the legislation,” Siddiqui wrote to the Sindh Assembly Secretariat while returning the bill.
The Governor, in his observations, said the Assembly needs to take note of the letters written by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), MQM parliamentary leader Sardar Ahmed, as well as the protest by religious parties, which either called for the bill’s withdrawal or proposed amendments to it.
Sindh Assembly Secretary GM Umer Farooq confirmed they had received the bill with the Governor’s message.
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