Pakistan's clerics express reservations over draft of anti-forced conversion bill
Published 25 Aug,2021 via Dawn ISLAMABAD - Clerics and religious scholars who attended a meeting called by the Ministry of Religious Affairs to discuss the draft of the anti-forced conversion bill have expressed serious reservations over the bill and warned the ministry that it cannot be implemented in its current shape.
The ministry invited only Muslim stakeholders to hold the in-camera meeting on Monday. Members of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) or its chairman, Chela Ram, were not invited to the meeting. The lone Muslim member of the NCM, Mufti Gulzar Naeemi, was invited in the capacity of a local cleric.
The meeting was chaired by Minister for Religious Affairs Pir Noorul Haq Qadri. Some senior officials of the ministry, including heads of the Interfaith Harmony Wing and Haj Wing, were also in attendance.
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