Newspaper attacks poet over talaq:
Urdu Times dubs Javed Akhtar a ‘heretic’ for stance on divorce tradition.
Mohammed Wajihuddin
Mumbai, July 14: The triple talaq issue just became personal.
The second-biggest Urdu newspaper in Mumbai, Urdu Times, has taken on poet-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar over his campaign against the practice of triple talaq.
Akhtar is the head of Muslims for Secular Democracy (MSD), which proposed in a July 2 press conference that the Muslim Personal Law Board (MPLB) change the rules of talaq.
As the practice currently stands, a man may divorce his wife instantly by uttering ‘talaq’ three times. The MSD instead urged the Board to follow the guidelines of the holy Quran, which says that talaq should be pronounced over a period of three menstrual cycles. [...]
Also:
The lyrical world of Javed Akhtar at
rediff.com
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