India, May 3 -- Bangladeshi Islamist outfit Hefazat-e-Islam on Saturday asked the interim government to scrap the Women's Affairs Reform Commission by calling it 'anti-Quran'.

Recently, the group issued a 12-point declaration and even called for a nationwide protest on May 23.

The Islamist group demanded the formation of a new women's commission that will include Islamic scholars.

The declaration, read out on Saturday at a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan by the Hefazat's nayeb-e-ameer, Mahfuzul Haque, was quoted as saying by The Daily Star that women's social progress should not be dictated by Western values but instead be grounded in the country's religious and cultural traditions.

Bangladeshi women protesting in Dhaka during the July-Augu...