Law Commission seeks proposals: Effective inheritance law enforcement
By Our Staff Report
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan has invited proposals for the full and effective enforcement of inheritance law to ensure that women and children get their due shares.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the commission said that the law of inheritance was based on the Quranic injunctions and the shares of legal heirs were clearly specified in the law. This law had been in force since long but regrettably women and children had often been deprived of their Quranic shares clearly stipulated in the law, the statement said.
It said the people employed various tricks and pretexts to deprive women and children of their shares. The enforcement of the law of inheritance, it said, was a command of Allah and a requirement of the law and had to be implemented in letter and in spirit.
Taking notice of this state of affairs, the commission asked the secretary of the commission to prepare a viable and practical plan of action and design concrete mechanism for the full and effective enforcement of the law with special reference to the shares of women and children.
The plan of action, it said, should be such that all legal heirs, including women and children, were given their specified shares in inheritance and they do actually get it.
It said the commission had now undertaken an exercise of preparing a mechanism to ensure that legal heirs, and especially women and children, were not deprived or denied their stipulated shares in inheritance. The commission asked the people to put forward practical and workable proposals for the purpose to the Secretariat of the Commission by Jan 20.
The Commission is headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan and its other members are: Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court, the Chief Justices of all four high courts, Senior Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and Law, Justice & Human Rights and Attorney-General of Pakistan.
