Zakat Council

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Zakat Councils are responsible for collecting and distributing the Islamic taxes known as Zakat and Ushr in Pakistan. The councils are overseen by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. In Pakistan, the system of compulsory collection and distribution of Zakat and Ushr began in 1980,[1] with an ordinance decreed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq calling for a 2.5% annual deduction from personal bank accounts on the first day of Ramadan, with the revenue to be used for poverty relief.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Zakat Ordinance 1980. Chapter No 1 PREMINIARY" (PDF). Central Despository Company. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  2. ^ Jones, Owen Bennett (2002). Pakistan : eye of the storm. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. pp. 16–7. ISBN 9780300097603. zia giving him a free hand to ignore internationally accepted human rights norms.
  3. ^ Salim, Arskal (2008). Challenging the Secular State: The Islamization of Law in Modern Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 117-119. ISBN 9780824832377. Retrieved 3 December 2014. zakat pakistan.