Letter to the Editor, Daily DAWN, Wednesday: November 11, 1998

Hakim Said on Shariat Bill

I am a member of the Hamdard Majlis-i-Shoora which meets regularly every month in the four provincial capitals of Pakistan. I have before me a paper which the learned Hakim Said had circulated for discussion in the September session of the Majlis.

In this paper, he expressed in strong terms the futility and impracticability of enforcing Shariah through legislation and had advocated in equally strong terms the need to do so by personal example by the people at the helm of State affairs. This meant that Hakim Sahib did not support the bill.

H. HASAN NAQVI

Lahore