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Gen Musharraf bows to rightwing groups

Military govt to incorporate Islamic laws in constitution
ISLAMABAD. July 16: Twice in as many months, Pakistan's military government Saturday bowed to pressure from rightwing Islamic groups, this time agreeing to Incorporate Islamic laws in the country’s provisional constitution, reports AP.
Last month the army government. led by Gen Pervez Musharraf, who is considered a moderate, buckled to pressure from radical Islamic leaders to stay away from the country's controversial blasphemy laws.
After Islamic groups threatened to launch street demonstrations the army government rescinded plans to make It more difficult to lay charges under the blasphemy laws, which carry the death penalty for Insulting Islam or its prophet.
This time the army agreed to take Islamic clauses, which were in the constitution the
army suspended after seizing power last October, and incorporate them in a provisional constitution currently in effect in Pakistan.
The provisional constitution is an abbreviated version of the country's constitution, but It also gives the army sweeping powers and makes it illegal to challenge the army’s rule in Pakistan.
Musharraf Issued an ordinance late on Saturday incorporating the Islamic provisions, culminating weeks of protest speeches by rightwing Islamic leaders in Pakistan
These provisions govern such Issues as punishments, settling ol disputes. Hadood ordinance, which effectively says a woman needs tour male witnesses to prove rape.
According to the state-run news agency, the army Incorporated the Islamic provisions In
order to dispel any doubts which were being created in the minds of the public by vested interests," an apparent reference to Islamic groups, who had been stirring up public sentiment against the government over this issue.
The army’s seeming reluctance to stand firm against rightwing Islamic groups has human rights organisations and moderate Pakistanis worried.
In recent weeks Islamic groups have stepped up their campaign against groups like the Human Rights Commission calling them purveyors of western values.
The Human rights Commission oi Pakistan has expressed Its concern about statements by religious leaders, who have called for a ban on human rights groups and aid organizations, particularly those offering assistance to women and mi-
nority religious groups
Oue of the most radical of the religious leaders, Fazl-ur Rehman, who met last week with Musharraf, accused these groups of seeking to lure Muslim women away from a traditional way of life.
Rehman supports a type of Islamic government like the one In effect next door In Afghanistan, where the Taliban rulers! there deny women the right to work ami severely limit girls education. In Afghanistan girls are educated only until eight years old and only In the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
Islamic scholars say that the Taliban style of government In Afghanistan is more In keeping with tribal traditions (han a reflection of Islamic teachings.
However. Rehman and most of the rightwing religious leaders In Pakistan adhere to a similar line of thinking.