HYDERABAD, Dec 16: Roet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman has urged Gen Pervez Musharraf to pay heed to ulema’s viewpoint on the Women’s Protection Law and get their proposals incorporated in the law through parliament.

Mufti who is member of an ulema team holding negotiations with political parties on the law, believed the act would complicate problems for women rather than providing them any relief.

Speaking to newsmen late on Friday night after attending Imam Noorani conference he said that "The ulema are ready to meet Gen Musharraf because it’s not a question of their prestige. We have no political agenda at all," he clarified.

The act had given women the same legal status as they enjoyed in America and Europe because if a 16 year old girl committed adultery she would not be taken to task under the law, he said.

The religious scholars’ team including Mufti Taqi Usmani, a retired judge of Federal Shariat Court and Mufti Muneebur Rehman had met with PML chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and another group of ulema had called on MQM leaders in Karachi to convince them that the law was not in accordance with the teachings of Quran and Sunnah.

He claimed that before his departure for US visit, Gen Musharraf had met with ulema and sought their proposals on women’s rights. The president wanted to show the ulema’s suggestions to the US authorities to prove how moderate Pakistanis were, he said, adding that the government was now claiming credit for their proposals.