PESHAWAR, Jan 26: The NWFP Nifaz-i-Shariah Council (NSC) in its maiden meeting here on Sunday decided to formulate code of conduct for the chief minister and cabinet members in accordance with Shariat.

The meeting, presided over by its chairman, Mufti Ghulam Rehman, also reviewed the procedure in courts and decided to put forward recommendations about how to Islamise the procedural laws in different courts according to the findings of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).

The council general secretary, Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, told newsmen after the meeting that a two-member committee, comprising Maulana Mohammad Idrees and Maulana Hussain Ahmad, was constituted to draft a code of conduct for the provincial cabinet.

The committee, he said, had been directed to put forward its recommendations to the provincial cabinet for approval. The proposed code of conduct, he added, would be helpful in the revival of Sunnat among the government functionaries in the province.

He said the council would review the recommendations of the CII to bring about Islamic procedural laws in the judicial system of the province.

The council general secretary said the provincial council would go through the recommendations of the CII and would give its findings for overhauling the judicial system in accordance with the Islamic teachings, keeping in view the powers enjoyed by the provincial government.

In case, he added, if the provincial government lacked powers of implementing those recommendations, the issue would be referred to the provincial assembly.

Other members of the council, including Prof Mohammad Ibrahim, Prof Salim Shah, Prof Maulana Mathiur Rehman, Maulana Hussain Ahmad, Mufti Kifaitullah, Maulana Nizamuddin, Maulana Mohammad Idrees and Kifaitullah Kundi, advocate, attended the council meeting.