Pakistani Cleric Demands End to Conventional Courts by April 23

Source: Bloomberg
April 20 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistani pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad demanded the government abolish conventional justice in the northwestern Malakand area by April 23, replacing it with Islamic courts, or face a new round of protests.
“All the courts including the Supreme Court are not Islamic,” Rizwanullah Farooq, Muhammad’s son, said by telephone today, speaking on behalf of his father. “We don’t want these judges and we do not recognize them as they are preachers of unholy laws.”
President Asif Ali Zardari approved the so-called Nizam-i- Adal, or Justice System, last week to introduce Islamic law in Malakand. Under this regulation, conventional courts were to be replaced by a Shariah system of justice from April 14, the day the law was approved.
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Muhammad, whose militant group Tehrik-e-Nifaaz Shariat Muhammadi led the campaign for the imposition of Shariah law in the area, told a gathering of his supporters yesterday that there’s no room for democracy or elections in Islam. LinkHere