Srinagar, May 16: The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik on Monday urged Ulema, scholars and intellectuals to launch a sustained campaign against female foeticide in the state.  
 Referring to the recent reports and statistics about the skewed female sex ratio in the state, Malik said it was “highly shameful” that people in Kashmir were also resorting to female foeticide as result of which the ratio of girl-children had abnormally dwindled. “This undesirable and unethical trend has exposed the hollowness of our moral and social claims. It has brought us back to the level of stone-age era when people would burry alive their girl children. With the advent of Islam, this immoral practice was done away with at every place in the world where people embraced Islam. According to the Quran and traditions of Islam, foeticide is a grave unpardonable sin equivalent to murder. We cannot claim to be Muslims while indulging in heinous crime of foeticide. Murder of a female child was in vogue during the period of ignorance in Arabs but it was strictly forbidden by Islam. If we restart this immoral practice, we have no right to call ourselves as civilized people,” he said, adding that “Islam has given special status to womenfolk.”
 “JKLF, as a responsible part of society, vows to fight against this crime,” said Malik.

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