Sharif's sharia; Pakistan. (Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announces islamic law for the country)
Economist (US), The, April, 1991
NAWAZ SHARIF, Pakistan's prime minister, is learning to be all things to all men. Last week he encouraged Pakistan's stricter Muslims with an "historic" address to parliament announcing new Islamic laws to govern the nation. Yet the nation's less strict Muslims-and foreign investors-are feeling remarkably sanguine: they have read between the lines of the new sharia (Islamic law) bill, and seen little to worry them.
Their nonchalance may yet turn out to be misplaced, but for the moment it looks well enough based. Although the sharia bill proclaims the Koran and the sunnah (way of the Prophet) as the supreme law of the land, many of the draft proposals merely emphasise existing features of the constitution. Moreover, the bill cleverly outflanks the clergy's bid...
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