From correspondents in Peshawar, Pakistan | February 16
THE Pakistan Government and Islamic hardliners have signed an agreement to enforce sharia law in the northwestern Swat valley, a provincial minister says.
"Today an agreement has been signed between the government of NWFP (North West Frontier Province) and Maulana Soofi Mohammed," provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said.
"All laws against sharia will be abolished and sharia will be enforced under this justice system."
The agreement will cover Pakistan's northwest Malakand area, one of the districts of NWFP and of which the troubled Swat valley is a part.
THE Pakistan Government and Islamic hardliners have signed an agreement to enforce sharia law in the northwestern Swat valley, a provincial minister says.
"Today an agreement has been signed between the government of NWFP (North West Frontier Province) and Maulana Soofi Mohammed," provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said.
"All laws against sharia will be abolished and sharia will be enforced under this justice system."
The agreement will cover Pakistan's northwest Malakand area, one of the districts of NWFP and of which the troubled Swat valley is a part.
Source: The Australian
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