ABSTRACT
Pakistan is one of the largest and one of the youngest Muslim countries in the world. It has the distinction of being the only country to be created in 1947 as a homeland for Muslims. Major political pressure for the creation of an Islamic system in Pakistan has come primarily from the so-called Islam-pasand parties. On 10 February 1979, President Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq utilised the occasion of Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi to introduce a new set of Islamic laws in Pakistan. The newly formed Pakistan National Party (PNP) has been openly critical of both the military government and its Islamisation drive. With its base of support primarily in Baluchistan, the PNP advocates secularism, greater provincial autonomy and a return to democratic government. Building upon pressures for an Islamic system created by the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) mass movements of 1977, the present military regime has undertaken the task of Islamisation in a broad.
