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To: Dayuhan who wrote (98517)	5/20/2003 4:20:00 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The recommendations in that report are being made to the fox in the henhouse. These are all things Mushareff at sometime or another has endorsed but if he tries seriously to implement them, he will have an aviation accident. It's tricky being head fox with with apparent sympathies for the hens. RECOMMENDATIONS To the Government of Pakistan: 1. Revise the Legal Framework Order 2002 and other amendments made by the Musharraf administration to remove restrictions on fundamental freedoms, including limits on the freedoms of assembly and expression and participation in government. 2. Revoke constitutional amendments that discriminate on the basis of religion and sex. 3. Revise Islamic laws that undermine rights of minorities and women by: (a) amending the Hudood ordinances, including those on evidence and payment of compensation for murder, to restore the legal rights of women; and (b) tightening procedures for bringing blasphemy prosecutions. 4. Prevent MMA provincial governments from pursuing policies that violate basic constitutional rights by: (a) using the constitutional powers of the federal government to override any provincial legislation that restricts women's participation in public life, or denies them education and employment opportunities; (b) refusing to sanction proposed changes in the educational system or textbooks at the provincial level that are inconsistent with national policy; and (c) using federal law enforcement agencies to protect NGOs and their personnel. 5. Channel no federal grants and aid money to educational, health and employment projects specifically designed for promoting segregation or other religious causes. 6. Devise and implement legislation to institutionalise an ad hoc ban on jihadi organisations and curb activities aimed at recruitment, fundraising and publication of jihad literature. 7. Implement existing anti-terrorism laws to disarm and disband private militias. 8. Devise new legislation and implement existing anti-terrorism laws to: (a) counter MMA governments' intentions to relax arms licensing regulations; and (b) implement federal restrictions on the possession and public display of weapons across the board. 9. Regulate madrasas and mosques so as to end their use for the promotion and propagation of extremist political and militant ideologies. 10. Seek parliamentary action to widen the membership of the Council of Islamic Ideology to include the full range of Muslim opinion, including moderate scholars, lawyers, academics, women's organisations and financial experts. 11. Curtail the mandate and scope of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and substantially limit it to public service issues, including the haj and other pilgrimages. To the International Community: 12. Monitor and assess, pursuant to the UN Security Council's anti-terrorism resolutions, the Musharraf government's compliance with obligatory domestic reforms to: (a) curb religious extremism and militancy; (b) reform the education sector; and (c) enforce strict anti-terrorism financing laws. 13. Condition aid to Pakistan upon fulfilment of its commitments under international law to protect women and minorities against legal, political and social discrimination. 14. Encourage domestic reforms by: (a) funding secular educational projects through international financial institutions and bilateral aid agreements; (b) extending financial support to development NGOs that deliver health, education and social services in the NWFP and Baluchistan; and (c) providing economic and political support, through UN agencies and bilateral funding, for democratic development programs in the NWFP and Baluchistan. 15. Monitor the cooperation of Pakistani military, paramilitary and intelligence forces in preventing jihadis from moving across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and into Kashmir.