KUALA LUMPUR: The Women and Family Development Ministry and the Perlis Government have agreed on the urgent need to standardise Islamic family laws following the controversy over the ruling on polygamy in the state.
Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said she would bring the matter up to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Islamic Family Law, headed by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim, and to the Cabinet.
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