Taliban law now OFFICIAL in NWFP

[Saddle Bronc 124]

'Taleban law' passed in Pakistan

Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has passed a bill setting up a Taleban-style department under a cleric to enforce Islamic morality.

It gives the new department the power to use the police and media for the promotion of Islamic values.

The NWFP is governed by an alliance of religious parties, the MMA, that is sympathetic to the Taleban.

It has already introduced measures such as the banning of music on public transport.

We had promised an Islamic system to the nation and approval of the Hisba bill is an important step in that direction

Akram Khan Durrani,

NWFP chief minister

The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hassan in Karachi says the wording of the bill has been deliberately left vague and therefore open to different interpretations.

Critics say this leaves it open to misuse by politicians in the future. (1 cont'd)

Note: military admin currently (also past such as Zia and Yahya Khan) are already noted for such abuse--so there's no "in the future" here

(cont'd from 1)Opposition MPs wore black armbands and staged a walkout from the assembly, saying their proposed changes to the law had been ignored.

The move comes only days before the federal assembly is due to debate moves to water down Islamic laws on divorce that have been denounced by women's groups.

The Hisba (Accountability) bill was passed in the NWFP assembly by a majority of 66 to 30.

'Important step'

Last year, the province's governor refused to sign a similar bill into effect, and the Supreme Court declared aspects of the proposed law unconstitutional.

Under the constitution, the provincial governor is obliged to agree to the latest version, as he is only allowed to veto a bill once.

He must give his assent within 30 days of the bill being presented to him.

Some of the provisions in the 2005 bill that the Supreme Court criticised have been dropped.

The department will not now have its own police force. It will, however, be able to requisition police "to promote virtue and prevent vice".

In other concessions, the power to cap spending on weddings or to enforce an Islamic dress code in public has been removed.

The legislation also allows the department to tackle issues like honour killings of women, child labour and ensuring the rights of minority religious groups.

"We had promised an Islamic system to the nation and approval of the Hisba bill is an important step in that direction," NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

Correspondents say that it remains to be seen which areas of its remit the department will choose to focus on.

Last year, President Pervez Musharraf denounced the original bill as a breach of fundamental human rights.

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[almaty 19]

wow..i thought we went into afganistan to stop bin laden and the taliban..so they would not have a base to operate..just moved next country over.,...

[Ban Hammer 14,396]

wow..i thought we went into afganistan to stop bin laden and the taliban..so they would not have a base to operate..just moved next country over.,...

imagine that.........saddle up, packistan is next

[almaty 19]

wow..i thought we went into afganistan to stop bin laden and the taliban..so they would not have a base to operate..just moved next country over.,...

imagine that.........saddle up, packistan is next

i think that part of pakistan are full of chopf##ks looking for a clue

[Saddle Bronc 124]

wow..i thought we went into afganistan to stop bin laden and the taliban..so they would not have a base to operate..just moved next country over.,...

imagine that.........saddle up, packistan is next

i think that part of pakistan are full of chopf##ks looking for a clue

You may want to consider deleting the part in red, Dean.

• formed as a "homeland for muslims of the Sub-continent" due to Jinnah's quest for power (and knowledge that the Hindu majority would fluster this aim)--and without consent of many of those (Bengali muslims, who were not even asked their vote on whether to be part of India or Pakistan or "third option"--a unified Bengal+Northeast separate of both would have been quite viable).
  
• official language originally spoken by THREE PERCENT of its population (increased to EIGHT in 1971, mostly due to the national government's own stupidity--which resulted in the breaking away of Bangladesh)
  
• the only nation in the world to attempt to teach both "glorious Islam" and "victim mentality" (what do you think the "two-nation" theory for its founding was?) simultaneously
  

[almaty 19]

wow..i thought we went into afganistan to stop bin laden and the taliban..so they would not have a base to operate..just moved next country over.,...

imagine that.........saddle up, packistan is next

i think that part of pakistan are full of chopf##ks looking for a clue

You may want to consider deleting the part in red, Dean.

• formed as a "homeland for muslims of the Sub-continent" due to Jinnah's quest for power (and knowledge that the Hindu majority would fluster this aim)--and without consent of many of those (Bengali muslims, who were not even asked their vote on whether to be part of India or Pakistan or "third option"--a unified Bengal+Northeast separate of both would have been quite viable).
  
• official language originally spoken by THREE PERCENT of its population (increased to EIGHT in 1971, mostly due to the national government's own stupidity--which resulted in the breaking away of Bangladesh)
  
• the only nation in the world to attempt to teach both "glorious Islam" and "victim mentality" (what do you think the "two-nation" theory for its founding was?) simultaneously
  

good point brother sriniv..i stand corrected

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

wow..i thought we went into afganistan to stop bin laden and the taliban..so they would not have a base to operate..just moved next country over.,...

imagine that.........saddle up, packistan is next

i think that part of pakistan are full of chopf##ks looking for a clue

You may want to consider deleting the part in red, Dean.

• formed as a "homeland for muslims of the Sub-continent" due to Jinnah's quest for power (and knowledge that the Hindu majority would fluster this aim)--and without consent of many of those (Bengali muslims, who were not even asked their vote on whether to be part of India or Pakistan or "third option"--a unified Bengal+Northeast separate of both would have been quite viable).
  
• official language originally spoken by THREE PERCENT of its population (increased to EIGHT in 1971, mostly due to the national government's own stupidity--which resulted in the breaking away of Bangladesh)
  
• the only nation in the world to attempt to teach both "glorious Islam" and "victim mentality" (what do you think the "two-nation" theory for its founding was?) simultaneously
  

Gotta love that impartial Indian view of Pakistan...