Religious reforms of zia ul haq

Although Islam played an important part in the creation of Pakistan and although in all the three constitutions of Pakistan, Islamic Shariah was made the supreme law of Pakistan yet all this actually was on paper only and very little sincere effort was made to make the simple values of Islam as the guiding principle of the national life. During Zia ul Haq’s tenure (1977-1989) serious efforts were made to introduce Islam into the life of Pakistani’s.

We are required to study whether this pro-Islamic attitude of Gen Zia Ul Haq was politically motivated or whether he was a real lover of Islam.

The first factor that helps to find the answer of this question is the fact that Gen. Zia Ul Haq was the first ruler after Quaid-e-Azam who did not belong to the group of dominant group of feudal lords, zamindars. By family background, by habit and by attitude the above classes were cunning, cruel and contradictory. They openly professed one thing, while in personal and political life they acted completely against it. For example in public speeches they loudly spoke about the need of education, but in political and personal life they di

(2) The most revolutionary part of this program was the Hadood Ordinance. Women consenting to fornication outside marriage were for the first time in the history of Pakistan was to be punished along with men. The penalties were severe including lashing, life imprisonment and in some cases, death by stoning. The law dealing with rape was modified which made it compulsory that for conviction for this crime an independent witness was required.

Gen.Zia Ul Haq imposed martial law in 1977and he ruled for over a decade, after deposing Mr. Z.Ali.Bhutto .he was forced to do so even though he was a reliable confidant of Bhutto whom the latter had personally promoted to the position of Chief of Army Staff after ignoring many Generals senior to him.

Listed above were the Islamic reforms of Gen. Zia UL Haq. But the question arises that Bhutto had already banned drinking and took some other necessary steps as ordered by Islam. Then what was the purpose of Zia’s Islamic program. It strongly appears that Islam was made to play an essentially ideological role. It was an alternative to the PPP’s socialist image. It provided slogans to the potential populist movement intended to combat PPP’s populism.

(3) Recommendations were also underway for the institution of the Shariah law, part of which was to make the evidence of a woman in the court of law half the weight of that of a man. However the Shariah Law was never applied for several reasons. Similarly the scheme of Qazi Courts c

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