Sharia supreme law in Pakistan
NZPA-Reuter Islamabad President Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq has decreed that the Islamic legal code of Sharia will be Pakistan’s supreme law. The decree on Wednesday night said all existing and future laws had to conform to Sharia, interpreted as “injunctions of Islam laid down in the
holy Koran and Sunnah” (tradition of prophet Mohammed). The decree, although coming into force immediately, provided that most decisions of superior courts enforcing Sharia would not be effective until at least three months after General Elections due on August 26.
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