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	Religioscope > Archives > Afghanistan and Islamic values: ban on cable TV seen as symptom of power struggle
		The chief justice of the Afghan Supreme Court, Mawlavi Fazl Hadi Shinwari, banned five fledgling cable television networks in Kabul this week on grounds that some of the foreign programming being shown was un-Islamic.
		Sifton said Afghanistan's Islamic fundamentalists appear to be increasing their pressure on moderates, possibly in an attempt to discredit Karzai and others ahead of the 2004 elections.
		Afghanistan's deputy chief justice, Fazel Ahmad Manawi, said that the Islamic scholars of Afghanistan should decide whether the ban is valid or not.
	www.religioscope.info /article_57.shtml (1190 words)

	Bonn Agreement (Afghanistan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Officially the Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions, the Bonn Agreement was the initial series of agreements intended to re-create the State of Afghanistan following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an invasion which ended the twenty-plus-year-long Afghan Civil War.
		Since no nationally-agreed-upon government had existed in Afghanistan since 1979, it was felt necessary to have a transition period before a permanent government was established.
		A nationally-agreed-upon government would require at least one loya jirga to be convened; however, in the absence of law and order in the wake of the rapid victory of American and Afghan Northern Alliance forces, immediate steps were felt to be required.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonn_Agreement_(Afghanistan) (274 words)

	United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: Media Room: 2004 Press Releases: Afghanistan: Freedom and ...
		WASHINGTON – Afghanistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari’s call for the disqualification of a presidential candidate in the country’s first upcoming Presidential elections since the fall of the Taliban for purported “anti-Islamic remarks” on women’s rights and family law reveals that human rights and democracy are still under threat from extremism in Afghanistan.
		Chief Justice Shinwari not only called for the disqualification of the person’s candidacy for President, but also reportedly insisted that prosecutors investigate his “blasphemous remarks.” The candidate in question contends that Shinwari does not have the authority to disqualify any presidential candidate; at this time, he remains a candidate.
		Chief Justice Shinwari’s remarks demonstrate that these rights, the system of electoral democracy, and the vitality of political dissent continue to be at risk in Afghanistan.
	www.uscirf.gov /mediaroom/press/2004/september/09132004_afghanistan.html (867 words)

	Chief Justice of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chief Justice of Afghanistan is the head of the Afghan Supreme Court.
		The chief justice now is Fazl Hadi Shinwari.
		This page was last modified 21:29, 25 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chief_Justice_of_Afghanistan (62 words)

	United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: USCIRF Events: 2003 Hearings: Reconstructing Afghanistan: ...
		Freedom in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, and we will be exploring on this panel today some of the trends in the current process of judicial reconstruction and the risks for human rights and religious freedom during this constitutional drafting process.
		Shinwari, the Chief Justice, 80-something-years-old, no one is quite sure, and he is supposedly under the Constitution to be no more than 60, but he's also supposed to have an education in both Islamic and national laws in Afghanistan, which essentially means the secular law.
		There are supposed to be a Chief Justice and eight others, a total of nine, and the appointments are supposed to be approved, under the '64 Constitution, by the king, but the way it should obviously be now would be by the President.
	www.uscirf.gov /events/hearings/2003/january/01292003_reconPart1.html (9445 words)

	Women's Action 21.4
		Following her visit to Afghanistan in 2005, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women noted that one of the principal causes of pervasive gender-based discrimination and violence against women in Afghanistan is the lack of enforcement of the rule of law.
		New Chief Justice Azimi was recently reported to have said that "if a woman comes to court, we will protect her under the law".
		Chief Justice Azimi and other Supreme Court judges must fulfill this promise and act to ensure that women’s rights in Afghanistan are protected and upheld in accordance with Afghanistan’s Constitution and its international human rights obligations.
	www.equalitynow.org /english/actions/action_2104_en.html (623 words)

	Afghanistan: Karzai Fails on Press Freedom (Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, June 24, 2003)
		On June 17, chief editor Sayeed Mir Hussein Mahdavi and deputy editor Ali Reza Payam Sistany of Aftab (The Sun) were arrested on the orders of Afghanistan's chief justice with the approval of President Karzai.
		According to government officials familiar with the case, Afghanistan's chief justice, Fazl Hadi Shinwari, a cleric allied with the ultra-conservative mujahidin leader Abdul-Rabb al-Rasul Sayyaf, a powerful political leader in Kabul, ordered the arrests and the closure of the paper with the approval of President Karzai.
		The deputy chief justice, Fazel Ahmad Manawi, said in an interview with Radio Liberty on June 19 that Mahdavi and Sistany would be tried on the "allegation of insulting Islam," and that international pressure could do nothing to stop the government from pursuing the case.
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/06/afghan062403.htm (800 words)

	HERAT2
		Chief Jirga of Dera Ghazi Khan, and MLC Punjab 1921, Hon.
		Sultanat Begum, daughter of H.H. Amir al-Mumenin, Amir Muhammad Yaqub Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, by a Hazara consort.
		Sardar Muhammad Hasan Khan, son of H.H. Amir al-Mumenin, Amir Muhammad Yaqub Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, by a Hazara consort.
	4dw.net /royalark/Afghanistan/herat2.htm (1143 words)

	JURIST - Afghanistan: Afghan Law, Legal Research, Human Rights
		The socialist government of Afghanistan was ultimately overthrown by the Mujahideen in 1992; the Mujahideen subsequently proclaimed an Islamic State and called elections in which Professor Burhannudin Rabbani was elected President.
		On January 8, 2002, it was reported that the Afghan Interim Authority had appointed the influential Pashtun Islamic scholar Fazal Hadi Shinwari, the former administrator of a seminary in Pakistan, as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan.
		Chief Justice Shinwari has been quoted in press reports as saying that justice in post-Taliban Afghanistan will continue to be dispensed according to Islamic law.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/afghanistan.htm (935 words)

	L.F. BROWN: Elections
		There was much controversy when Afghanistan’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Fazil Hadi Shinwari, then 73 years of age, placed a ban on cable television last year, due to its content being un-Islamic.
		After being appointed Chief Justice by the Interim Administration in January 2002, he was again made Chief Justice in June 2002, this time by the Transitional Authority, a position he retains to this day.
		In the latter half of December 2002 the Conference on Justice in Afghanistan, which was closed to the media, was held in Rome to discuss the rebuilding of Afghanistan’s justice system.
	lfbrown.typepad.com /lfbrown/elections (7426 words)

	Pakistan, Islam and the Taliban phenomenon
		The destruction of Afghanistan was the consequence of calamitous political developments which started in a big way in December 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and then withdrew after ten years in 1989.
		Chief Justice Saqib answered that subsequent to this event, four rightly guided caliphs succeeded the Prophet and four different Imams established schools of Islamic jurisprudence dealing with most problems.
		The chief justice explained that the reason for the public display of punishments, including amputation of limbs and stoning to death is to give convincing warning that there will be zero tolerance for criminal offences.
	www.indianembassy.org /int_media/pak_islam_taliban_june_09_00.htm (1570 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Ex-Taliban fighters are released in Afghanistan
		KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military released 81 Afghan prisoners from detention on Sunday in what Afghanistan's chief justice, Fazel Hadi Shinwari, described as the first stage of a reconciliation program under which many suspected Taliban fighters held by the Americans might be freed over the coming months.
		Col. David Lamm, chief of staff for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying that the release was a gesture of reconciliation ahead of Muslim holidays this week.
		The chief justice said that the government was working to win the release of all Afghan prisoners being held by the Americans in Afghanistan and in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600105280,00.html (1015 words)

	Embassy of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		"Afghanistan's ambassador said their constitution is the "most progressive charter in the region," setting the stage for the country to become a model for other emerging democracies."
		January 24, 2004 (SHFW) Washington - On paper, Afghanistan's constitution is the "most progressive charter in the region," setting the stage for the country to become a model for other emerging democracies, Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States said Thursday.
		Once Afghanistan's people are secured, he said, this security can be shared with the rest of the world.
	www.embassyofafghanistan.org /embassy/home.nsf/32ff79f0e2449f6987256f7900567f27/bb708c3e62b3cfe987256f9600326835!OpenDocument (615 words)

	Women's Action 21.3
		Originally appointed by former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, a conservative chief of the Northern Alliance, Justice Shinwari was later reconfirmed by President Karzai under the transitional administration in June 2002.
		Among the prime requests was for action to establish security and to enforce the rule of law, with specific reference to a “sound and responsive legal and judicial administration system/structure.” For the rule of law to apply, the Supreme Court must be constituted and operate in accordance with the provisions of the Afghan Constitution.
		Please write to President Karzai and call on him to replace Chief Justice Shinwari, together with all other judges who are not prepared to uphold the provisions of Afghanistan’s Constitution and international law that provide for equality between men and women and prohibit all forms of discrimination.
	www.equalitynow.org /english/actions/action_2103_en.html (1197 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		KABUL (Agencies): The chief justice of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said on Tuesday the trial of eight foreign aid workers accused of promoting Christianity had begun.
		Saqib said it was too early to say what punishment may be handed out if the eight foreigners were found guilty of proselytizing, but stressed the case was a matter of grave concern for Afghanistan and the Islamic world.
		Islamabad-based diplomats from Germany, Australia and the United States, together with the father of one American detainee and mother of the other, have been in Kabul for more than a week.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0109/06/eng3.htm (767 words)

	CNN.com - U.N. urges fair trial of aid workers - September 4, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The United Nations has called for a fair trial of eight overseas aid workers, accused by Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.
		The trial began in Kabul earlier Tuesday, though Noor Mohammed Saqib, the chief justice of Afghanistan's Supreme Court, said it is in a preliminary stage and none of the detainees had been brought to court yet.
		Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Monday it had completed its investigation of the aid workers.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/04/afghan.trial (625 words)

	Informed Comment
		Amputation of hands and stoning to death will continue to be the punishment for thieves and adulterers in post-Taliban Afghanistan, country’s new Chief Justice Fazal Hadi Shinwari was reported today as saying.
		Justice Rana Bhagwandas (Hindu) is a Supreme Court judge.
		I believe he was the Chief Justice for a short while (perhaps as an interim Chief Justice).
	www.juancole.com /2006/01/great-justices-installed-by-bush-as.html (1100 words)

	Chief Justice Rehnquist - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who we learned less than a year ago, had thyroid cancer, died at his home Saturday with his three children at his side.
		As President Bush, who was sworn in by Chief Justice Rehnquist, said yesterday in his brief remarks, the chief justice was respected for his "powerful intellect" and "profound" commitment to public service.
		Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a Stanford schoolmate of Chief Justice Rehnquist, announced this spring that she was retiring (and said she would stay on the bench until a replacement is seated).
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20050904-102409-8284r.htm (434 words)

	The Command Post - Global Recon - Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies
		Chief Justice Rehnquist died of cancer at his suburban Virginia home, shortly before 11 p.m.
		In 1986, President Reagan elevated Rehnquist to chief justice to replace Warren Burger.
		The chief justice has been the leader of five conservatives, sometimes called "the Rehnquist five," Rehnquist and O'Connor, Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Thomas - who generally advocate limited federal government interference.
	www.command-post.org /nk/2_archives/019774.html (504 words)

	Afghanistan's book of laws - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Celebrating the success of Afghanistan's new constitution is a hazardous undertaking, since euphoria could quickly collide with the country's sobering realities.
		This law isn't regarded as a problem in and of itself, but leaves open the opportunity for strict interpretations of Islam by the chief justice of Afghanistan's highest court.
		Current Chief Justice Mullah Fazl Hadi Shinwari is considered fairly conservative, having banned cable television and boys and girls studying together.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040110-103817-2842r.htm (563 words)

	* Afghanistan - Death penalty an option for foreigners: Taliban chief justice * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		'in another story out of afghanistan, the taliban chief justice was seen hanging precariously over the edge of a cliff with a stick of dynamite stuck up his rear and a freeper smiling widely as she reached for her lighter'
		Chief Justice Mawlawi Noor Mohammad Saqib gave the clearest indication so far that execution is an option under the Taliban's radical brand of Islamic law as the trial of the two Americans, two Australians and four Germans entered its second day.
		The chief justice reiterated the defendants would receive a fair hearing and would be allowed to hire Afghan or foreign lawyers even though it is not common practice in Afghan courts.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/516900/posts (2738 words)

	Afghanistan News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		When Fazal Hadi Shinwari was told that he did not have the authority as the chief justice of Afghanistan, he said he had made the suggestion as the chairman of the Afghan council of scholars, not as the chief justice.
		According to the presenter, Mr Shinwaris call for amnesty of the Taleban insurgents and his suggestion for the extension Mr Khalilzads mission in Afghanistan are part of his political activities that have had negative impacts on both the political and judicial systems.
		The high level of corruption and the increase in Taleban attacks on religious scholars are the results of the chief justices political activities.
	www.afghanistan.org /news_detail.asp?17765 (1393 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghanistan: Christian aid worker back in Kabul
		Taubmann, Shelter Now's director in Afghanistan, and his fellow aid workers became the Taliban's human shields during the bombing raids in Kabul and then on their retreat to Kandahar.
		Yet last June, the current chief justice of Afghanistan's Supreme Court, Fazal Hadi Shinwari, announced his intention to reopen the Taliban's case against Shelter Now.
		Stitt, "and the chief justice told him, 'Don't worry about the Afghans, we will take care of the Afghans.'" Then, says Stitt, the chief justice drew his finger across his throat.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/bff4635d0dd17232c1256c240045529f (1465 words)

	Skin Scandal On Kabul Cable, Country Bans Foreign Cable Shows As Offensive To Islam - CBS News
		Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he issued the ban, which took effect over the weekend, after a group of citizens said they were outraged by images of scantily clad women and men.
		Afghanistan's new government has lifted many of the Taliban's restrictions on employment and education of women.
		Western Afghanistan's Herat province recently banned men from teaching female students, a move opponents say will severely curtail education for women and girls because most teachers are men.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/01/21/world/main537341.shtml (554 words)

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