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Islamabad: Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) Chairman, Special Representative to Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi said Ulema-Mashaykh of different religious schools of thought have given unanimous ‘Fatwa’ that women should be given the right to education and inheritance.

“The religious leadership of all the religious sects have also agreed that daughters should not be deprived of education, he said while addressing a Three-Day Paigham-e-Pakistan Training workshop here.

Among notable Ulema-Mashaykh and religious leadership present on this occasion include Dr Ziaul Haq, Dr Masoom Yaseenzai, Mufti Muhammad Noman, Mufti Zubair Ashraf and other scholars.

PUC Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi said that no one can give greater rights to women than those given by Shariat.

(Source: https://www.thenews. com.pk/print/941103-ulema-back-education-inheritance-rights-for-women-ashrafi)