Pakistan OKs Sharia Law in Select Area

[unhappycamper]

Pakistan OKs Sharia Law in Select Area
February 16, 2009
Mclatchy -Tribune News Service

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The Pakistani government has agreed to a deal that could impose Islamic law in parts of the country in an attempt to placate Islamic militants, while President Asif Zardari warned in an interview, which aired Sunday, that the Islamists are "trying to take over the state."

Pakistani officials said Islamic law, or sharia, would be imposed in a vast region of northwestern Pakistan called Malakand under a deal hammered out with the militants over the weekend.

The Pakistani move is likely to add to the strains between the U.S. and Pakistan, which a nearly completed U.S. military study is expected to say is a more urgent foreign policy challenge for President Barack Obama than Iraq or Iran are.

A parade of high-level U.S. officials has visited Pakistan to press for more aggressive military efforts against Islamic militants and to criticize attempts to negotiate peace deals with extremists.

In an interview with CBS, which aired Sunday, Zardari admitted the country is in grave danger from the Taliban, whom he said are present in "huge parts" of Pakistan.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/pakistan-oks-sharia-law-in-select-area.html

[izzie]

1. The Puritans are back and doing well.

Just look at all these countries that have tried to have Church States and how bad they have worked. You would think people would have learned something. :shrug:

[blm]

2. this is basically what was happening in the 2yrs prior to 9-11, too.

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