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Mahzarnama 3 (d) All the other Assemblies in the world would also have the right to declare certain Muslim sects to be non-Muslim by virtue of a few of their beliefs. For instance, one will have to concede the right of the National Assembly of India to declare all Muslim sects, one after another, to be non-Muslim on the strength of all those religious edicts of disbelief ( fataawa ) which they have pronounced against one another, and to absorb the Muslims within the corpus of the non-Muslim majority of India. (It may be remembered that the Muslims constitute a minority in most countries of the world). (e) Similarly, all Christian governments will have to be considered as entitled to use their right of legislating on the basis of their numerical majority and declaring their Muslim citizens to be a minority, and depriving them of their civil rights. It may be remembered that the Christian population of Pakistan is beginning to voice their concern that they are being deprived of their civil rights. It is obvious that the above mentioned outcomes cannot be acceptable on the basis of reason and would unleash a host of unrest and misery in Pakistan as well as other countries of the world. National Assembly and the Jurisdiction to Decide upon Religious Matters No National Assembly can be considered entitled to deliberate upon such matters for yet another reason: its members, taken individually too, cannot be guaranteed to have the capability to decide upon religious matters. The members of most National Assemblies in the world present their political manifestos to the voters and are elected on the basis of their political acumen. In Pakistan, the members of the present National Assembly were elected by majority vote on the basis of