Article: Muslim Women's Personal Law Board backs Muslims' headcount.

Muslim Women's Personal Law Board backs Muslims' headcount

Lucknow, Feb 15 (PTI) The All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board today lent its support to the move to ascertain the number of Muslims in the armed forces and denounced the parties which were opposed to it.

Board's general secretary Parveen Abdi, in a statement issued here, lashed out at the political parties for allegedly communalising the "routine issue" of asking for representation figures of Muslims in the country's armed forces by the high- powered comittee for empowerment of Muslims headed by Justice Rajinder Sachhar.

Abdi, who was also part of some of ...

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