Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday ratified a regulation for enforcing of Islamic laws in the restive Swat valley, after the Parliament asked him to accord approval to the measure as part of a peace deal with the Taliban.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday ratified a regulation for enforcing of Islamic laws in the restive Swat valley, after the Parliament asked him to accord approval to the measure as part of a peace deal with the Taliban.
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Zardari signed the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation 2009 after it was approved with majority by the Parliament, said senior minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour.
The NWFP government drafted the regulation after entering into a deal with the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Sharia Muhammadi (TNSM), a group of religious hardliners, on enforcing Shariah in Swat.
The TNSM in turn began peace parleys with the local Taliban, who called a truce in the region.
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