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...fundamentalist," declared Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif last week, but that did not stop him from introducing broad legislation to make strict Islamic law, or Shari'a, the "supreme law of Pakistan." Addressing a joint session of Pakistan's Senate and National Assembly, Nawaz Sharif outlined a legislative package that includes changes in the education and judicial systems and the restructuring of the economy along Islamic lines. The proposed legislation fulfills Nawaz Sharif's election promise to the small but powerful Islamic parties that helped him defeat Benazir Bhutto last October...
Last week the new government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, which had promised to institute a legal system based on Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied by a "simpler and befitting interpretation" of the law. Nawaz Sharif is learning that imposing Islamic codes is far tougher than campaigning on the issue...
Jatoi and two leaders of the Islamic Democratic Alliance -- Nawaz Sharif and Mohammad Khan Junejo -- won their races...
Each day at noon, huge lines form behind relief trucks carrying the daily rations of pita bread, tomatoes, cucumbers and cheese. Beneath a tarp of sheets and blankets, Mashama Nawaz, 35, a Pakistani, sits with his wife and three children. His daughter, only two, sleeps on the ground, as relatives try to keep her cool. "Yesterday they gave me one piece of bread and three tomatoes," says Nawaz. "I kept telling them I have children to feed, and they kept saying 'We are sorry...
...battles with Nawaz Sharif might not have cost Bhutto so much support if her government had compiled a solid record of accomplishment during the past year. At first Bhutto complained that her government could not pass legislation because the upper house of parliament was almost entirely pro- I.D.A. But that excuse grew thin when the People's Party did not even try to introduce bills that might prove acceptable to all parties. Considering the extravagant promises of the party manifesto and Pakistan's abysmal poverty and appalling 77% illiteracy rate, there is little time to waste. To make matters worse...