March 19, 2003	Wednesday	Muharram 15, 1424

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PESHAWAR, March 18: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that the Nifaz-i-Sharia Council’s report on the Islamisation of outdated colonial laws will be presented in the provincial assembly for debate and approval for enforcement in the province.

Speaking to newsmen here at the Frontier House on Tuesday, he said the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would fulfil its promises made with the people.

Earlier, the NSC President, Mufti Ghulamur Rehman, presented the council’s report to the chief minister and expressed the hope that the government would take steps for its gradual implementation.

He said the 21-member NSC, constituted on Jan 22, held 28 sessions, sifted opinions of experts sought on various issues and compiled a report in the light of suggestions prepared by the Council of Islamic Ideology during the tenure of successive governments.

He said the NSC members were aware of their limitations and constraints as they had been vested with a task dealing with the provincial subjects. “It is limited, but it is the basic programme which they have suggested for the provincial government,” he added.

He refused to reveal any section of the report and said it was up to the government to do so. “We are custodian of a task being a consultative body and cannot make any comment on the document,” he added.

The chief minister said the provincial cabinet would go through the report and he would make it public on March 21.

He said the NWFP Assembly being a supreme body would also discuss it. Some issues which required a proper legislation process would be tabled in the form of bill in the house, he added.

Some of the NSC members, senator Prof Mohammad Ibrahim, Maulana Abdus Salam Salfi, Allama Ramzan Tauqeer, Mufti Kifayatullah and provincial ministers Sardar Idrees, Hafiz Akhtar Ali, Fazle Rabbani and Asif Iqbal were present on the occasion.