Part VIII
Women’s Organisation

Article 88

The women’s organisation (members and associates) shall be separate from that of men’s and the Central President shall be empowered to prescribe an appropriate set-up for it in consultation with the Working Committee and introduce changes as and when necessary.

[Women’s organisation’s set-up prescribed by the President in consultation with the Working Committee is given in Appendix 6.]

Part IX
Dismissal from Positions in the Jama’at

Any member of the Council (central or subordinate) shall be dismissed from the council, if he:

• Ceases to be a member of the Jama’at-e-Islami Pakistan, or
• Absents himself continuously from two sessions of his council without any valid reason, or

• Resigns from council’s membership and the concerned President accepts his resignation, or

• The assembly of members from his constituency expresses no-confidence against him with at least 2/3^rd majority.

1. Expulsion of a member of the Jama’at shall be only when he:

• Deviates from his covenant of membership by word or by deed, or

• Violates Jama’at’s discipline, or

• Does anything opposed to the announced policy of the Jama’at, or
• Commits a deed that is damaging for Jama’at’s ethical and religious position, or
• It is evident from his attitude that his association with the Jama’at is not that of sincerity, or
• Ceases to take interest in the Jama’at’s work.

2.      If a District President feels himself or on the report of a subordinate President that a member of his district has violated any of the sub-clauses of the above Clause 1 to such an extent that he should be removed from the Jama’at’s membership, he shall send his report through the higher set-ups’ Presidents to the Central President.

3. The final decision for expulsion shall be at the Central President’s discretion. However, a Provincial or Divisional or District President may suspend the membership, if he deems it necessary, until the decision of the Central President. (See explanatory Appendix 4, Clause 5.)

If Jama’at’s requirements and interests so demand, the President is authorised to suspend a subordinate unit, and, in consultation with his Working Committee, dissolve it.

Article 92

All matters pertaining to suspension and dissolution of subordinate units or expulsion of members that may have taken place since the last session of the Council shall be presented before the Council in the next session.

Those members who remain steadfast in their covenant of adherence to the Jama’at’s Constitution but whose view-point is different from Jama’at’s decisions with regard to the strategies for the realisation of its mission, shall have to observe the following:

1. They shall have full right to express their differences of opinion in an assembly of members, but they shall not be entitled to use the press or any public platform for this end, nor shall they have the right to canvass among individual members of the Jama’at.

2. They shall accept the decisions arrived at by majority vote in the Jama’at as Jama’at’s decisions. However, they shall have the right to try to get those decisions changed in the relevant assembly of members, remaining within the determined limits.

3. If a member expresses his difference with the established policy of the Jama’at, he shall no longer hold such a position in the Jama’at that demands implementation or interpretation of Jama’at’s policies.