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ajiss-2921	Ahmad, Mumtaz	Parliament, Parties, Polls and Islam: Issues in the Current Debate on Religion and Politics in Pakistan	1985.0	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6313	246	51	He felt that any attempt to obstruct the election process in Pakistan would amount to the virtual defeat of Islamic political system. It now stated that “elections on the basis of political parties system are un-Islamic and unlawful according to the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah” (emphasis added).46 On the other issues, such as the election and powers of the President and shoora, electoral college, and civil liberties, most of the practical recommendations of these reports apparently contradicted their ideological assumptions, for while they all paid rhetorical homage to the Islamic principles of shoora, equality and democracy, they nonetheless recommended a constitutional structure which sought to concentrate all power in the hands of the executive branch of the government.	cache/ajiss-2921.pdf	txt/ajiss-2921.txt