From: smks@look1.apmaths.uwo.ca (Sultan Sial)
To: Rahni.Ennor@anu.edu.au
        smks@look1.apmaths.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: general request 
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sun, 07 Jan 96 13:24:16 U.)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 14:08:37 -0500
     > :      any thoughts on the separation or lack thereof between church and
     state
	      would be welcome.I'm (beginning) writing my thesis on religion an
    d
	      politics, and as I am of the heathen/secularist bent,I'd be inter
    ested to
	      hear any comments from the "opposition" .I'm focussing on South A
    sia for my
	      thesis,but am interested in the world scene in general.

	      Thanks!

	      Rahni

I am not necessarily of the opposition (and not necessarily a heathen) 
but if you are interested in how "church" and state interact you might 
want to take a look at chapter 6 of the book "Pakistan:1995" by Charles. H. Kennedy
and Rasul Baksh Rais.  Chapter 6 is   

Protecting Religious Minorites: 
The Courts; Abdication
Tayyab Mahmud,
Associate Professor of Law
Cleveland State University

The chapter traces the original gaurantees of religious
freedom within Pakistani law and the consitution and the
steady erosion of those freedoms through successive pieces
of legislation.


Sultan Sial
smks@look1.apmaths.uwo.ca
http://look1.apmaths.uwo.ca/sultan/