DAR AL ISLAM - AFGHANISTAN: SHARI'IAH LAW FOR ALL ! ! !

Afghan clerics seek Sharia law - report

A GROUP of Afghan religious clerics is demanding the nationwide enforcement of Islamic Sharia law such as capital punishment and stonings for adulterers, it was reported today.

Until overthrown in 2001, the Islamic Taliban government used to stage public executions, chop off the hands or feet of thieves and stone male and female adulterers.

The Taliban's imposition of Islamic law largely isolated the group worldwide, but at home was credited with reducing crime.

Since Western-backed President Hamid Karzai came to power, however, only one execution has take place and there have been no reports of stonings or lashings.

The call for the reintroduction of Sharia law came from more than 200 clerics in the western province of Herat on Monday, Arman-e-Millie daily reported.

It quoted a resolution from the group urging Mr Karzai to "earnestly" campaign for implementation of the punishments.

The demand comes amid rising crime during an unprecedented period of personal freedom in the deeply conservative country.

It coincides with the launch of a UN conference in Rome on promoting the rule of law in Afghanistan.

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