Gazette Islamic family law pronto: PM

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Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has urged state governments to gazette the Islamic family law as soon as possible to resolve the allegations of non-uniformity in Islamic laws, including those pertaining to polygyny.

Bernama reported Mahathir as saying that the laws had been accepted by the Rulers Council.

"Thus, what needs to be done is only to gazette the law, and the same law will be applied in all states in the peninsula as well as Sabah and Sarawak.

"The question of standardising them does not arise when we gazette this law."

He hoped that the manifold problems pertaining to Muslim families would be reduced thereafter.

Mahathir was speaking to the press after chairing a special meeting in Putrajaya today to resolve the long-standing controversy on polygyny and Islamic Family Law.

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