Point well taken.Unfortunately for Pakistan, sane people are not heard and worse is that they do not take the masses with them;they are satisfied with expressing their views.Time that Religious fanaticism is laid to rest and the path of building the Nation is started.Media, students and intelligentsia must mobilize Public opinion and set Pakistan in order to prevent it becoming another Afghanistan or being swallowed by China.
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If the Taliban were to come to power in Pakistan (which is what their struggle is all about), what would they do to the Constitution? The answer is: they would retain Article 227 and discard the rest of the Constitution. This single article of the Constitution would be sufficient for them to run the country. Their interpretation of this Article would be: “All laws to be brought in conformity with the injunctions of Islam – as perceived by the Taliban.”
They could arguably use the article to make laws to kill a barber for a haircut, bomb a school if it was attended by females, gouge the eyes of those who watched television, lash people for wearing shorts and cut off hands for theft, and to slaughter those who differed with the Taliban’s brand of religion – all in the name of Islam. Thanks to Article 227, all this would be well within the ambit of law and the constitution. The Taliban could not have conceived a better, simpler and more accurate one-liner constitution.
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